Lykke Li - “Gunshot” (Official Video)

Lykke Li’s new video for “Gunshot,” a searching power ballad from her I Never Learn album, is a stark and striking thing. In the video, Lykke looks like a wraith, with corpsepaint makeup and an ill-fitting trench coat, and she dances expressively across a burnt-out apocalyptic parking lot. There seems to be some kind of shantytown there, and she encounters colorful characters — bloodthirsty little kids, girls who seem to twerk compulsively, dirtbike trick riders — without seeming to notice any of them. Maybe the video is some kind of extended heartbreak metaphor, and maybe it all just looks cool. Either way, you can watch.