Lady Wood

chronology
Lady Wood
Studio album by Tove Lo
Publication ; (s)	October 28, 2016
admission	July 2015 - April 2016
Label (s)	Iceland
Format (s)	CD, LP, digital
Genre (s)	Electropop , Synthpop , Dance-Pop • Tech House
Title (number)	12 (+ bonus tracks)
running time	39:35 (+ bonus tracks)
production	Oscar Gorres; Oscar Holter; Ilya Salmanzadeh; Joel Little; Tove Lo; Ali Payami; Ludvig Söderberg;
Studio (s)	Wolf Cousins ( Stockholm , Sweden ) ; MXM ( Los Angeles , California ) ; Golden Age (Los Angeles, California) ;
4th August 2016	Cool girl
15th November 2016	True disaster

Lady Wood is the second studio album by the Swedish singer Tove Lo , which was released on October 28, 2016 under the Island Records label.

background

On August 17, 2016, Tove Lo announced the title of the album and the release of the album on October 28, 2016. Lady Wood is about a rollercoaster of emotions that she experienced herself after she released her first EP Truth Serum in 2014 and also released her debut album Queen of the Clouds in 2014. The album, which is the first of two of its kind, is split into two chapters. The first half of the album ( Fairy Dust ) deals with the euphoria of a pleasant encounter, the second half ( Fire Fade ) with self-confidence. The third half ( Light Beam ) as well as the fourth half ( Pitch Black ) are on their third studio album Blue Lips , which was released just over a year later. Tove Lo wrote every song on the album (except for the intros) and worked with rapper Wiz Khalifa ( Influence ) and singer Joe Janiak ( Vibes ).

promotion

Single releases

The album's lead single, Cool Girl , was released on August 4, 2016 and reached # 84 in the United States and # 15 in Tove Los homeland, Sweden. The second single is the song True Disaster , previously released as a promo single , which was released as a single on November 15, 2016. In addition, the song Influence was released together with Wiz Khalifa as a promo single in September 2016.

trip

On October 23, 2016, five days before the album's release, Tove Lo announced the Lady Wood Tour , during which she toured North America and Europe on 21 dates in early 2017 to promote the album. Two appearances also took place in Germany.

Short films

The short film Fairy Dust is about the first half of the album. The trailer was released on October 17, 2016, while the film was released on YouTube on October 31, 2016 . Another short film about the second half of the album entitled Fire Fade was also released on YouTube on August 25, 2017.

Track list

#	title	Author (s)	Producer (s)	length
1	Fairy dust	Ludvig Söderberg	Ludvig Söderberg	0:57
2	Influence (feat. Wiz Khalifa )	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström, Wiz Khalifa	The Struts	3:44
3	Lady Wood	Tove Lo, Oscar Holter, Ludvig Söderberg	Oscar Holter, Ludvig Söderberg	3:19
4th	True disaster	Tove Lo, Oscar Holter	Oscar Holter	3:44
5	Cool girl	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström	The Struts	3:19
6th	Vibes (feat.Joe Janiak)	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström, Joe Janiak	The Struts	3:46
7th	Fire fade	Ilya Salmanzadeh	Ilya Salmanzadeh	0:52
8th	Don't talk about it	Tove Lo, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Rickard Göransson	Ilya Salmanzadeh	3:54
9	Imaginary friend	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström, Joel Little	Joel Little, The Struts	4:12
10	Keep It Simple	Tove Lo, Ali Payami	Ali Payami	3:51
11	Flashes	Tove Lo, Oscar Gorres	Oscar Gorres	4:16
12	WTF Love Is	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström	The Struts	3:41
	Target version
13	Cool Girl (The Knocks Remix)	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström	The Struts, The Knocks	5:00
14th	True Disaster (Hyperbits Remix)	Tove Lo, Oscar Holter	Holter, Hyperbits	3:34
15th	Influence (Chords Remix) (feat.Wiz Khalifa)	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström, Wiz Khalifa	The Struts, Chords	3:43
	Deluxe vinyl edition
1	Cool Girl ( Timbaland Remix)	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström	The Struts, Timbaland
2	WTF Love Is (Karma Fields Remix)	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström	The Struts, Karma Fields
3	Cycles (MK Remix)	Tove Lo, Joe Janiak, Ludvig Söderberg	The Struts, MK
4th	Bitches (feat. Charli XCX , Icona Pop , Elliphant & Alma )	Tove Lo, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström, Wiz Khalifa	Ali Payami	3:11

reception

Reviews

Lady Wood received largely positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , the album got an average of 74 out of 100 from 16 reviews. Entertainment Weekly's Madison Vain touted the album as the darkest, strangest and most irresistible album of the fall, saying Tove Los lyrics are very personal, but the music was made for the crowd. However, DIY's Alim Kheraj noted that Lady Wood was not made for the radio.

Charts and chart placements

With Lady Wood Tove Lo reached number one on the album charts in her home country Sweden. There the album stayed in the charts for 26 weeks. So far, Tove Lo has only managed one of her albums to top the charts in Sweden. In the rest of the world the album was also able to achieve placements, in the United States it just missed the top 10 there with eleventh place. Unlike its predecessor, Queen of the Clouds , this album didn't stay in the charts that long.

Chart placements
Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	66 (1 week)	1
Switzerland (IFPI)	40 (1 week)	1
United Kingdom (OCC)	40 (1 week)	1
United States (Billboard)	11 (3 weeks)	3
Sweden (GLF)	1 (26 weeks)	26th