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 [...]

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 [...]

“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...