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After reminding us “The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love” (aka the summer is best experienced in 3/4 time), Lekman appeared on the Australian game show Spicks And Specks dressed like Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider (or Gary Numan’s Swedish cousin) to sing lines from Hedda Gabler set to the tunes of Haddaway’s “What Is [...]
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Thus far, Jens Lekman has released three music videos for songs from his new album I Know What Love Isn’t, and he’s worked with director Marcus Söderlund on all three of them. They’ve all shown Lekman singing his songs in vaguely unlikely occasions, all filmed in gentle and unobstructed long tracking shots. The lus...
Jens Lekman hasn’t released a new full-length album since 2007′s Night Falls Over Kortedala, but that changes next week, when the introspective and funny Swedish indie-pop crooner unleashes his new LP I Know What Love Isn’t on the world. We’ve already posted the videos for the title track and “Er...
Jens Lekman’s recent “Erica America” video was a single shot that started with a tight close-up on the singer-songwriter before gradually roaming around and showing the rest of Lekman’s band playing the song in a gray room somewhere. We recently posted video of Lekman singing the lush and self-deprecating ...
In a recent Progress Report, Jens Lekman keyed us into what he was going for with his forthcoming I Know What Love Isn’t: I think that for this record for example I eventually had a lot of ideas of how to strip the songs down and work in a different way and challenge myself. It’s [...]
submitted by Nick Jul 18th 2012 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Name: Jens Lekman Progress Report: Lekman chats about his long-awaited new record, I Know What Love Isn’t. It’s been five long years since Swedish charmer Jens Lekman put out a record, but this fall he finally returns with I Know What Love Isn’t, an aptly-titled breakup record in the classic tradition. On his excellent Smalltalk [...]


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