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Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala Review

Oct 30, 2009, 8:21am Highway Five UK Music Blog
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala Review Night Falls Over Kortedala sounds effortless. It glides like a kite of angel wings on a soft summer breeze, all twinkling keys, kettle drum rolls, soaring strings and Lekman's glorious croon. It belies the difficult genesis of the record. Three years in the making, the songs were honed live, written and rewritten until they sparkled. Lekman was so disenchanted at one point that he talked of retirement. We should all be thankful that he persevered. I guess Jens Lekman is a singer-songwriter. That tag does him such a disservice, loaded as it is with images [...]
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