“Let’s talk about the album. It was a motherfucker to make,” Lykke Li told an audience gathered to hear her sixth studio album ‘Afterparty’ at a playback in Los Angeles earlier this year. Offsetting her need to make something more “extroverted, impulsive and chaotic” than predecessor ‘ EYEYE ’, as she told NME , against the cultural backdrop of Trump and AI while raising two kids, the Swedish alt-pop icon found herself in a place that “feels like it’s 4am and the sun is going to rise”. This is the last push before the hangover, the fear and the consequences kick in; a fitting feeling for what she’s said could be her last album . READ MORE: On ‘The Afterparty’, Lykke Li is sticking two fingers up to traditional pop trajectories Some say goodbyes should be short, and this last waltz comes in at just nine songs and 24 minutes.…