Browse by Artist: LEKMAN, JENS

Artist:	LEKMAN, JENS
Title:	You Are the Light
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.00
Catalog #:	SC 106CD

"Just as pop stars Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker and Prince segued from their early work into their more wildly iconoclastic periods, You are the Light signals not only a birthing for Jens, but also the end of an era for him. On this EP, we also find Jens at perhaps his most vulnerable, the spare 'A Man Walks Into A Bar', is essentially just Jens and a mic -- nada mas. This EP serves as a coda to his upcoming debut full-length When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog, having been recorded at the tail end of those album sessions, and, ultimately, it gives a small insight into where this burgeoning maestro is going. Lekman has been called 'the latest and possibly greatest Scandinavian export... A modest commercial success in his homeland and a genuinely compelling artist, as evinced on the Maple Leaves EP and Rocky Dennis EP. Perched at the center of an unbelievably lush swirl of strings and background cooing, Lekman comes very close to evoking the early solo work of John Cale'."

Artist:	LEKMAN, JENS
Title:	When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 107CD

"His songs are each so different stylistically, each a classic in its own way. He employs each of the following as central features in his songs: horn sections, string sections, a capella singing, steel drums, piano balladry, and mandolin. Lekman is a young pop crooner from Göteborg, Sweden. Eyes bright, heart wide open, he's become an overnight sensation with his home recorded magic and fantastic lyrics. It's hard to believe that he is only 23. He could as well be playing Las Vegas. His timeless elegance makes the big, beautiful suburban pop songs sound like they're already classics. With an angelic voice and golden ears he seems to be drinking from the same hard waters as the Carpenters, Harry Nilsson, the Magnetic Fields, Smog, the Modern Lovers and Belle & Sebastian."

Artist:	LEKMAN, JENS
Title:	Night Falls Over Kortedala
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 160CD

"Jens arduously labored over the songs on Night Falls Over Kortedala over the last three years between relentless tours (which ranged from full blown 8-piece ensembles to just Jens alone with a ukulele at the mic). 'Kortedala' refers to a neighborhood in Jens' hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, where his studio Koredala Beauty Center is located. It also refers to a vague musical pop sound with hints of tropicalia that has been coming out of Gothenburg's clubs over the last few years. Having more in common with Paul Simon's Graceland, Jens' latest is a response to more than an engagement in today's Kortedala music of his Swedish peers. An exercise in insularity, Night Falls Over Kortedala has achieved its specific sound not from going out but from Jens staying in and coming to grips with the sounds he had in his head, or as he said, 'from the sound of my own voice reverberating off my home's old '50s brick walls, from the ghosts of everyone who's lived here before me clapping along with their little ectoplasm hands. My record basically never leaves the 30 square meters that I live on until the very last song when I take a short bus ride to the countryside in "Friday Night at the Drive-in Bingo."'"

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