Blog: Stereogum

"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 Williamsburg's McCarren Park for his Northside set two Saturdays ago, he had a shaved head under a baseball cap. This video for lead single "Erica America" has Lekman's bald dome bared, with him in a depressed man's cardigan (remember when he and the band were all [...]