Monday, December 04, 2006

Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens

Jens Lekman comes from Sweden, a land that has given us many brilliant pop artists (one of my favourites is Sondre Lerche, last album apart) and Lekman is definetely one of them: Oh You're So Silent Jens is not a proper LP but a collection of EPs instead and, maybe also because of this, OYRSSL is such a heterogenic and fascinating record, being so rich, having so many influences in it...but let's say that the names of people as Stephin Merrit's Magnetic Fields or Belle and Sebastian (but with a certain Burt Bacharach feel) often come to mind listening to him: soft balladry (with some almost-kitsch arrangements here and there) with great tunes.

INFO:
Jens Lekman on Wiki.

Oh you're so silent Jens

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi When are you going to upload the Botany Sessions by the Go-betweens. Will you be doing it soon??

misha said...

Yes, it's the next one, don't worry.

M.