I Follow Rivers

"I Follow Rivers"
Single by Lykke Li
from the album Wounded Rhymes
Released21 January 2011 (2011-01-21)
Genre
Length3:48 (original version)
4:45 (The Magician remix)
Label
  • LL Recordings
  • EMI (Scandinavia)
  • Atlantic (rest of world)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Björn Yttling
Lykke Li singles chronology
"Get Some"
(2010) 		"I Follow Rivers"
(2011) 		"Sadness Is a Blessing"
(2011)
Music video
"I Follow Rivers" on YouTube

"I Follow Rivers" is a song by Swedish recording artist Lykke Li from her second studio album, Wounded Rhymes (2011). Produced by Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, it was released on 21 January 2011 as the album's second single.[4] The track premiered exclusively on SPIN.com on 10 January 2011.[5]

Belgian DJ/producer The Magician remixed and reworked "I Follow Rivers" in 2011, peaking at number one in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania, number two in Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and number four in France. The remix was deemed "'90s house".[6] Belgian band Triggerfinger covered "I Follow Rivers" in 2012, peaking at number one in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.

  1. ^ "Best Albums of 2011". Wondering Sound. Archived from the original on 20 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  2. ^ "American Songwriter's Top 50 Songs Of 2011". American Songwriter. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. ^ Ahlgrim, Carrie (13 December 2019). "The 113 best songs of the past decade, ranked". Insider. Retrieved 30 December 2022. Lykke Li is at her best on "I Follow Rivers," a bizarre pop-rock-folk triumph
  4. ^ "I Follow Rivers – Single by Lykke Li". iTunes Store Sweden. Apple. 21 January 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
  5. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: New Lykke Li Song!". Spin. 10 January 2011. Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
  6. ^ "Lykke Li Waffles Between Pop and Anti-Pop on Soggy 'I Never Learn'". Rolling Stone. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2016.