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A forthcoming issue of the New York arts and culture magazine Esopus will come packaged with a new compilation, and the magazine has asked the artists in question to write songs "inspired by a customer service experience." The comp includes songs from Dirty Beaches, Richard Swift, Black Pus, Cakes Da Killa, and the charmingly specific Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, the latter of whom is exactly the guy you want writing your customer-service-experience song. Lekman has turned in "Regarding A Package," a spare and pretty song about the time a fan sent him a dead [...]

Stereogum The Swedes continue to invade America as charm-pop specialist Jens Lekman stopped by the Fonda Theater in Hollywood in support of his latest album, I Know What Love Isn't . Lekman was in good spirits, congratulating the audience on the Obama victory and injecting his usual anecedotes before some songs. Fellow countrywoman Victoria Bergsman provided support under the Taken By Trees moniker. Bergsman's backing band pulled double duty as Matt Popieluch opened the evening with his Big Search project. Check out the [...]

Stereogum 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 lush and plainspoken "Become Someone Else's" follows the videos for " Erica America " and the album's title track , and it's the first one where Lekman's band doesn't [...]

Jens Lekman preza pela fofura e pela simplicidade em seu novo clipe. O sueco deixa a melodia e a letra de I know what love isn't , carro chefe de seu mais recente álbum (que leva esse mesmo título) se transformarem em protagonistas do clipe. No vídeo de I know what love isn't , Jens faz uma dublagem seletiva de sua própria voz - escolhe o que deve ser dublado, palavras e frases, e cerra os lábios em silêncio em outros momentos. Sobre o clipe e seu ator principal, o diretor Marcus Söderlund [...]

Stereogum 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 "I Know What Love Isn't" live, and now we've got the video for the song's studio version. In this one, we get a single shot that starts with a tight close-up on Lekman before [...]

Stereogum 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 blog , Lekman has been remarkably frank about the heartache that inspired his new collection of [...]

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 one-shot video for lead single "Erica America" has Lekman's bald dome bared, with [...]

Stereogum Northside registered some memorable moments this year, from Kitty Pryde living the meme at Knitting Factory to a sold out Cameo Lounge for Stereogum's showcase (hat tip to Guards, for winning the night - and the fest's - best new act honors). Photographer wagz2it roved the north Williamsburgian terrain and assembled a spread of photos for your perusal. Click above for shots from Jens Lekman, of Montreal, the Thermals, Iceage-spinoff Vår, Wymond Miles, and a whole bunch more. [...]

Stereogum 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 20072s 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 first song we've heard from it is "Erica America," a finely orchestrated piece of extravagantly bummed-out '70s-style psych-pop. Listen to it and check out the album's tracklist below. [...]