Jens Lekman

maloun · 06.04.2007 21:38

how much you mean to me on mun lemppari just nyt.
myös jensin osalta näyttäs olevan hyvä vuosi tulossa :

SC100 (feat. my Scout Niblett cover) - April 24th
Single / EP - Late spring / Early summer
Arthur Russell EP - Summer ?
Album - Late summer / early fall

noiseidea · 06.04.2007 21:38

Jeees! Jens!

leposi · 26.07.2007 21:00

Tullu uus seiska. Vois yrittää jostain hommailla.

DirtyBlueGene · 26.07.2007 21:21

Lähimmästä lehtipisteestä löytyy colorflash

lejoncio · 26.07.2007 21:38

DirtyBlueGene wrote:

Lähimmästä lehtipisteestä löytyy

op DBGene jne. späm.

leposi · 26.07.2007 21:46

lejoncio wrote:

[quote:3d516881ba="DirtyBlueGene"]Lähimmästä lehtipisteestä löytyy

op DBGene jne. späm.[/quote:3d516881ba]

piano

simo_vaatehuoneelta · 26.07.2007 21:54

DirtyBlueGene wrote:

Lähimmästä lehtipisteestä löytyy

ginimies · 27.07.2007 02:48

1. And I Remember Every Kiss
2. Sipping On The Sweet Nectar
3. The Opposite Of Hallelujah
4. A Postcard To Nina
5. Into Eternity
6. I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
7. If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
8. Your Arms Around Me
9. Shirin
10. It Was A Strange Time In My Life
11. Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig
12. Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo

To be released September 5th in Scandinavia and October 9th in the rest of the world.

noiseidea · 10.09.2007 16:15

Jaa-a, nyt on toi uus pyörähtänyt muutamaan otteeseen, eikä nyt ihan debyytin ja ep-kokoelman kiimaan päästä. Muutama hyvä biisi, mutta sitten aikamoista täytettä tuntuu olevan myös. Ehkä tää tästä. Annetaan soida vielä.

ginimies · 14.09.2007 13:33

Pitsihaarukka antoi kohtuullisen arvion levylle.

[quote:84c2e976d3]Jens Lekman
Night Falls Over Kortedala
[Service / Secretly Canadian; 2007]
Rating: 9.0

Jens Lekman, the sample-happy Swedish singer-songwriter with the boyfriendable baritone, isn't an artist who changes much from record to record. On his second proper full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedela-- out in Sweden now, and in the U.S. on Secretly Canadian early next month-- Lekman's deadpan style of singing, sunny melodies, and wittily lovelorn lyrics are a lot like what he's been doing since 2004 debut LP When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, and on the EPs compiled on 2005's Oh You're So Silent Jens. "So if you liked that, you'll love this," Jonathan Richman once wrote. Lekman quotes the phrase on his blog.

On the other hand, Jens Lekman isn't quite Jens Lekman anymore. He logged out of MySpace for the last time in February, dissatisfied with the impersonality of the medium. The new Lekman is a 23-year-old American who so far has only one friend; he joins impostor Lekmans already populating Facebook and Friendster. The actual Lekman apparently finds something beautiful in these false copies of himself, and he's come to embrace them. "Just like I've lately embraced all the misinterpretations in the media," he explains, again on his blog.

It all goes to show: Pop's true meaning is whatever we construct for it ourselves. Not just critics or obsessive music lovers, but you, me, and anyone to whom a song means anything. Lekman's stunning Night Falls Over Kortedela embraces this idea more fully than any release of the past few years-- more even than Girl Talk with his memory-pricking laptop references, Kanye West with his canny reuse of classic hooks from Curtis Mayfield and Daft Punk, or mash-up artists with their many one-trick tracks. Like the Avalanches if they sang their own tunes, Lekman borrows liberally from his memories and surroundings, then uses them to create a lush and romantic world worth misinterpreting again and again.

It's a world set mostly within the confines of a Gothenburg, Sweden neighborhood called Kortedala. For this, Lekman has called the album a failure; he'd intended to traverse more ambitious terrain. Whether through samples, stylistic appropriations, or simply lyrics, Kortedala is a globe-conquering record regardless. Its vinyl-crackling arrangements span the baroque pop of Scott Walker, the upbeat rhythms and bright harmonies of Northern soul, and the beach-party disco of fellow Swedish artists Air France, Studio, and the Tough Alliance. Along with wry, sometimes melancholic observations worthy of Richman or the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, these elements make for Lekman's best record, one likely to captivate even those who were skeptical of his previous releases.

The new album introduces Lekman draped in timpani, strings, and horns on "And I Remember Every Kiss", which samples classical violinist (and gatefold-sleeve inventor) Enoch Light. While recalling late-1960s Walker, the majestic opening also picks up where the Blueboy-sampled orchestration of When I Said... finale "A Higher Power" left off. "I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun," Lekman proclaims here. A track later, though, he admits to sometimes nearly regretting his first kiss: "I see myself on my deathbed, saying, 'I wish I would have loved less.'" But that's when Willie Rosario's orchestral cover of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"-- also used by the Avalanches-- hits, in all its blissful glory. Love can lead to anguish and shame, but in "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar", the feeling is worth it.

With that, the voyage begins. First single "The Opposite of Hallelujah" visits 1960s Motown by way of Glasgow chamber-pop; beats sampled from the Tough Alliance take the harp-twinkled melancholy of "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You" to a club in the tropics. "Shirin" brings up the Iraq war as fact, not just political issue; it tells of an immigrant hairdresser at Kortedala Beauty Center (also the name of Lekman's home studio). On the slower "It Was a Strange Time in My Life", a portrait of the artist as a shy and self-loathing young man, a sample of an infant Lekman leads flute and chiming electric guitar into the not-so-distant past. "I had a good time at the party when everyone had left," Lekman sings; throughout the album, backing vocals by El Perro del Mar's Sarah Assbring and Frida Hyvönen ensure his loneliness never overwhelms his charms.

And these are considerable. If rock'n'roll is "the art of making the commonplace revelatory", as critic Greil Marcus once wrote, this fey crooner is a rock'n'roller on par with the Streets' Mike Skinner. Lekman can sing about asthma inhalers, avocados, and a heart "beating like Ringo"; on the aching standout "A Postcard to Nina", he describes an awkward conversation with a girl's stern father who makes clumsy jokes about lie detectors. All of it works. Over sampled a cappella doowop on "Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig" (Swedish for "Maybe I'm In Love With You"), Lekman just rambles for a while about something stupid he saw on TV. "This has of course nothing to do with anything/ I just get so nervous when talking with you," he finally admits.

Though not twee exactly, Kortedala may require an appetite for schmaltz-- another way Lekman makes "the commonplace revelatory." If his Four Seasons falsetto on "Shirin" sounds suddenly chic thanks to this year's great Pilooski re-edit of Frankie Valli's "Beggin'", then the unabashedly sentimental "Your Arms Around Me" might be the stumbling block for some listeners. (Its ukulele riff has already been compared to Hanson's "MMMBop".) It really doesn't matter; based on the Situationist concept of détournement, Lekman's song about an unfortunate kitchen mishap is a subversion of any bland source material. Besides, none of us can escape what's least cool about our past-- no matter what influences we list on our MySpace pages, it all informs our experience of pop. Or I could just be misinterpreting again.

Admittedly, no individual moment here quite rises to the heights of early single "Maple Leaves", which hinged on a mistake of its own: "She said that we were just make believe, but I thought she said maple leaves." As an album, however, Kortedala represents the most cohesive statement yet from an immensely talented artist whose early EPs once made him seem like a rebel against the LP form altogether. Like the Renaldo & the Loaf-sampling "Into Eternity", it's a record about moments (and kisses) we take with us-- moments that we (or Lekman) may never have experienced: Our own Kortedala.

So, is "Shirin" the true story of Lekman's hairdresser? Is jaunty "Friday Night at the Drive-in Bingo" really inspired by Lekman's time working what he's described as "the shittiest job in the world"? Did he even actually give up MySpace for good? Lekman takes great records down from their pedestal and reuses them in his art; it could be that he shows as little undue reverence for the facts of his own biography. Lekman follows an admonition from the Tough Alliance song sampled here, which they in turn lifted from 1980s UK left-wing skinhead band the Redskins: "Take no heroes, only inspiration." I can't wait until someone rips off this album.

-Marc Hogan, September 05, 2007[/quote:84c2e976d3]

leposi · 28.09.2007 12:00

Mulla on nyt Jens Lekmanin siskon osoite

asleep · 28.09.2007 12:40

Joo-o. Ei nyt ihan lähe samalla lailla ku edelliset :? Periaatteessa hiton hyvää, mut ei vaan jotenki jaksa.

Pitchforkin arvostelu nyt ei yllättäny yhtään.

leposi · 28.09.2007 13:19

Tuleepas tässä vanhoja muistoja mieleen tätä uusinta kuunnellessa, hitto vie itku

Jensiltä kuulostaa. Yksi kuuntelu takana ja toka just menossa. Tykkään ihan älyttömästi. Varsinki Postcard to Nina rulettaa!!!

skoskima · 28.09.2007 14:33

Kolme biisiä olen uudelta levyltä kuullut ja aluksi olin että eihän tää ole enää ollenkaan yhtä herkkää menoa kuin ennen mutta lisäkuuntelu kannatti. Levy on ostoslistallani.

noiseidea · 28.09.2007 14:35

leposi wrote:

Varsinki Postcard to Nina rulettaa!!!

JES! Ihan mahtava biisi.

Ja kyllähän tääkin tästä lähti lentoon lisäkuuntelulla.

psykokarkki · 28.09.2007 15:36

leposi wrote:

Mulla on nyt Jens Lekmanin siskon osoite

PrivateJoy = jens lekman icon_eek eiq mitäs colorflash

leposi · 16.10.2007 12:56

Oi kyllä! Tämä uusi levy, Night Falls Over Kortedala, on hieno. Varsinkin alku on niin älyttömän vahva. Keskivaiheilla mennään vähän huti, mutta ei se mitään. Eihän tämäkään periaatteessa ole levykokonaisuus vaan biisikokoelma, vai miten toi tyyppi nyt näytä joskus perusteli, ihan sama.

Mahtavaa!

Kiiminkijoen rantatörmä · 16.10.2007 13:09

Homo nynnyhän tää

noiseidea · 16.10.2007 13:11

Ulvis wrote:

Homo nynnyhän tää

Oot ilmeisesti siis kova fani?

anzut · 16.10.2007 14:07

[quote:b602fe8a13="leposi"]Oi kyllä! Tämä uusi levy, Night Falls Over Kortedala, on hieno. Varsinkin alku on niin älyttömän vahva. Keskivaiheilla mennään vähän huti, mutta ei se mitään. Eihän tämäkään periaatteessa ole levykokonaisuus vaan biisikokoelma, vai miten toi tyyppi nyt näytä joskus perusteli, ihan sama.

Mahtavaa![/quote:b602fe8a13] Kuuntelin eilen muutaman biisin tuolta uudelta levyltä ja kuulosti kyllä tosi hyvältä! Lyriikat sydan

leposi · 16.10.2007 14:18

anzut wrote:

Lyriikat

A postcard to Nina sydan

Siinä on sitä mikä on Jens Lekman.

noiseidea · 16.10.2007 14:31

leposi wrote:

[quote:7c30974688="anzut"]Lyriikat

A postcard to Nina sydan

Siinä on sitä mikä on Jens Lekman.[/quote:7c30974688]
Ehdottomasti peuk

But Nina I can be your boyfriend
So you can stay with your girlfriend
Your father is mailing me all the time
He says he just wants to say hi
I send back out of office auto-replies

ex-kolja · 16.10.2007 15:00

[quote:a6fac70d54="anzut"][quote:a6fac70d54="leposi"]Oi kyllä! Tämä uusi levy, Night Falls Over Kortedala, on hieno. Varsinkin alku on niin älyttömän vahva. Keskivaiheilla mennään vähän huti, mutta ei se mitään. Eihän tämäkään periaatteessa ole levykokonaisuus vaan biisikokoelma, vai miten toi tyyppi nyt näytä joskus perusteli, ihan sama.

Mahtavaa![/quote:a6fac70d54] Kuuntelin eilen muutaman biisin tuolta uudelta levyltä ja kuulosti kyllä tosi hyvältä! Lyriikat sydan [/quote:a6fac70d54]

Koitin tätä uuttakin levyä, yritin... En päässyt kahtakymmentä sekunttia pidemmälle. Tämä on vaan jotenkin niin maneerista ja ärsyttävää (laulutapa ja lyriikat erityisesti), etten kertakaikkiaan siedä. Silti, koetetaan taas kun seuraava levy ilmestyy. :?

maloun · 21.10.2007 12:54

saattaapi hyvinkin olla tämän vuoden paras levy.

stratum · 21.10.2007 13:29

Pitäisiköhän tuo sitten ostaa kun kaikki tuntuvat niin vuolaasti kehuvan. Aiemmat tuotokset ei ainakaan hirveästi ole säväyttäneet.

ginimies · 21.10.2007 15:00

stratum wrote:

Pitäisiköhän tuo sitten ostaa kun kaikki tuntuvat niin vuolaasti kehuvan. Aiemmat tuotokset ei ainakaan hirveästi ole säväyttäneet.

Suosittelen kyllä. Uusimmalla ei ole Maple Leavesin tasoisia ässäkappaleita, mutta kokonaisuutena "se" taitaa olla Jensin uran paras.

psykokarkki · 22.10.2007 09:42

en oo ikinä tätä kuullu, eikä kyl hirveesti kiinnostakaan -spåm

confused_new

anzut · 22.10.2007 15:42

[quote:5860f972bb="psykokarkki"]en oo ikinä tätä kuullu, eikä kyl hirveesti kiinnostakaan -spåm

confused_new [/quote:5860f972bb] taidat olla rainbow _tsot

kaakku · 22.10.2007 15:44

homo nipottaja?

nipo homottaja?

huig

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Pitäis varmaan hoitaa jostain kuunteluun.

kaakku · 22.10.2007 15:44

Sivunvaihdolle icon_lol peuk

Street Spirit Sr.

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