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Photo by William Kirk"Let's get away from it all," offers do-gooder Jens Lekman to pal and electronic music-maker Viktor Sjöberg in a message on his website. And so the two shall, on a whirlwind tour of the Asian continent that begins later this month.Lekman and Sjöberg will trade "The Cold Swedish Winter" for the more inviting climes of South Korea, Singapore, China, and Indonesia on the trek, which kicks off November 29 in Seoul and wraps just over a week later in Bandung. It would appear Jens is attempting to set up a gig in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur sometime after December 6 as well, so if you or someone you know lives in the area, wouldn't hurt to drop the guy a line.read more
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Last month, Jens Lekman held a funeral for his most popular album. When 2007’s Night Falls Over Kortedala was removed from retailers and streaming platforms on March 21, Lekman marched into an open field near his home base of Gothenberg, Sweden and ceremonially buried the record, a key release in his ascent to hopeless-romantic twee in...
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In 2018, Swedish musicians Jens Lekman and Annika Norlin launched a project called Correspondence, where they traded off a song with each other every month, which means that at the end of the year each artist had six new songs under their belt. They started last January and ended last December, but this month they're…
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Jens Lekman: shares new song 'Postcard #1' and promises a song a week in 2015 - listen
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Jens Lekman: – “Postcard #1″
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Talk about a New Year’s resolution: “While working on my next album, I will sit down once a week, write down my thoughts, turn them into a song and share it with you directly. Think of these little songs as postcards. Little greetings from me to you.” Jens Lekman wrote that in a letter earlier [...]
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Jens Lekman: Hear Three New Jens Lekman Songs On His WWJD Mixtape
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Remember that episode of Seinfeld in which George decides to do the opposite of what his instincts tell him, and the approach results in massive personal success? Jens Lekman is getting at the same ideas on “WWJD,” one of three new songs he shared today as part of a new mixtape, which is about revising [...]
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