Tagged: Jens Lekman
Interview: Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman, the great songwriter from Sweden, came to New York last month in support of his third album, I Know What Love Isn’t, out now. After he played a few songs for FADER TV, … read more »
By the Numbers: Service
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. In FADER #82, we actually took on a record label: Gothenberg, Sweden’s Service, which, with 19 albums … read more »
Live at Grand Street Bakery: Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman, the instantly-endearing songwriter from Gothenberg, Sweden, touched down in New York last week to support his first album in five years, I Know What Love Isn’t, out now on Secretly Canadian/Service. He stopped … read more »
Video: Jens Lekman, “I Know What Love Isn’t”
In a live performance of his new album’s title track, “I Know What Love Isn’t,” for the Guardian last month, Sweden’s most poignant troubadour Jens Lekman explained the song’s unusual genesis: This song is about … read more »
Download Service’s 10-Year Anniversary Compilation
One of the past decade’s secretly most influential labels, Service, home to impossible-to-appreciate-enough drivers of the experimental pop sea change like The Tough Alliance, The Embassy and Jens Lekman, celebrates their tenth anniversary with a … read more »
Marcus Söderlund: Wide Open Worlds
In the video for “Like a Fading Rainbow,” singer Jenny Wilson creeps through a forest, wades barefoot through a grassy lake and ends up in a meadow with a band of mystical ragamuffins dancing a … read more »
Jens Lekman Shared a New Song
You can download it below by simply forking over your e-mail address, but maybe read what he had to write about “The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Your Love” first. It’s moving. “It … read more »
If You Love Swedish Pop, This is Your New Homepage
Some of us (no need to name names) are mildly obsessed with Swedes and their music, specifically the incredible incubator that is Gothenburg, home to The Tough Alliance, jj, Air France, The Embassy, Love Is … read more »
Jens Lekman Struck By Swine Flu
Summer bummer. read more »
