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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 “Erica America,” and now the entire [...]
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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...
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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 ...
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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 [...]
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Jens Lekman: Progress Report: Jens Lekman
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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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Jens Lekman: – “Erica America” Video
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“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...
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