Deep Album Cuts Vol. 299: Tove Lo
Tove Lo released her 5th album Dirt Femme this year, and I realized she's been on a roll the last few years and has a good-sized catalog to mine for a playlist now.
2. Paradise
3. Thousand Miles
4. Got Love
5. The Way That I Am
6. My Love
7. Like Em Young
8. Keep It Simple
9. Don't Talk About It
10. Lady Wood
11. Fairy Dust - Chapter I
12. Fire Fade - Chapter II
13. Light Beams
14. Pitch Black
15. Hey You Got Drugs?
16. Shedontknowbutsheknows
17. Bad Days
18. Shivering Gold
19. Equally Lost (f/ Doja Cat)
20. Stay Over
21. Anywhere U Go
22. Mateo
23. Passion And Pain Taste The Same When I'm Weak
24. Cute & Cruel (f/ First Aid Kit)
25. Suburbia
26. Kick In The Head
Tracks 1 and 3 from the Truth Serum EP (2014)
Tracks 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 from Queen Of The Clouds (2014)
Tracks 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 from Lady Wood (2016)
Tracks 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 from the Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II) (2017)
Tracks 19, 20, 21 and 22 from Sunshine Kitty (2019)
Track 23 from Sunshine Kitty (Paw Prints Edition) (2020)
Tracks 24, 25 and 26 from Dirt Femme (2022)
My last deep cuts playlist was Carly Rae Jepsen, and it occurred to me that while she and Tove Lo make pretty different music, they've had parallel career arcs. Granted, "Habits (Stay High)" wasn't quite as big as "Call Me Maybe," but they both had their biggest hits early on, and a fairly successful follow-up, and then settled into a groove as more of a niche artist. I was skeptical of Tove Lo at first -- I didn't like "Habits," but then I dug "Talking Body," and when Blue Lips came out and became my #1 album of 2017, I went back and realized that all her albums are excellent.
It's notable that while Max Martin and other Swedish producers and songwriters have been absolutely running American pop for the last couple decades, Swedish artists very rarely make the same splash over here, and "Habits" was actually the biggest U.S. hit by a Swedish act since Ace Of Base. The deep cut "Mateo" is actually the only time Tove Lo has worked with Max Martin, which is a little surprising since a huge amount of her catalog is produced by frequent Martin collaborators (Shellback, Ilya, Mattman & Robin, The Struts, Ali Payami)
It's notable that while Max Martin and other Swedish producers and songwriters have been absolutely running American pop for the last couple decades, Swedish artists very rarely make the same splash over here, and "Habits" was actually the biggest U.S. hit by a Swedish act since Ace Of Base. The deep cut "Mateo" is actually the only time Tove Lo has worked with Max Martin, which is a little surprising since a huge amount of her catalog is produced by frequent Martin collaborators (Shellback, Ilya, Mattman & Robin, The Struts, Ali Payami)
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