“Summer is exhausting me with its exhaust fumes and empty promises.” Jens Lekman’s new album is called I Know What Love Isn’t, and its first single “Erica America” is true to that title: meet Jens 2K12, an elegant and articulate bummed-out human. When Lekman showed showed up at Williams...

After a long time away, the great Swedish indie-popper Jens Lekman returned last year with his An Argument With Myself EP, but he still hasn’t released an album since 2007′s Night Falls Over Kortedala. He’ll finally follow that one up in September with the just-announced new LP I Know What Love Isn’t. The ...

Swedish indie-popper Jens Lekman recently recorded an acoustic in-studio session for BBC Radio 1. During the session, Lekman played three new songs, including recent favorites “Waiting For Kirsten” and “I Want A Pair Of Cowboy Boots.” But the real news is that Lekman led off with a typically pretty new tra...

Last week, Swedish indie-pop wonder Jens Lekman played Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and played a new song, one he didn’t deign to name. It’s a characteristically sparkly number that opens with the line “I’m a 42-year-old woman, 6’1″ with a wooden leg” and he played it as a...

The Swedish indie-pop truth-teller Jens Lekman has been quiet in the game for altogether too long, and now he’s finally just about ready to release his new EP An Argument With Myself, his follow-up to the 2007 album Night Falls On Kortedala. We’ve already posted the title track, and now the entire EP is streaming [...]