Life Will See You Now
Jens LekmanLPA
- To Know Your Mission
- Evening Prayer
- Hotwire The Ferris Wheel
- What’s That Perfume That You Wear?
- Our First Fight
LPB
- Wedding in Finistère
- How We Met, The Long Version
- How Can I Tell Him
- Postcard #17
- Dandelion Seed
Jens Lekman releases his new album, Life Will See You Now. Across three studio albums, the Swedish singer / songwriter and musician has proven not only his flair for telling very personal stories with a sharp self-awareness, but also his skill for balancing depth of emotional expression. His fourth album, Life Will See You Now is a typical Lekman thing in several ways: sly humour is key to its heartfelt nature; it inverts pop’s writing norm by making songs with sad concerns sound happy and songs with a happy subject sound sad. But, as the title suggests, it also represents a significant move forward, as if across a threshold. Life Will See You Now is the more expansive, upbeat sound of a revitalized Lekman is also the result of deliberate steps he took to create this fresh sound. Lekman experiments with different kinds of rhythms – disco, calypso, samba and bossa nova all get a bespoke twirl in the spotlight – and so he called on producer Ewan Pearson (M83, The Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp) to help realize his new songs.