LEKMAN,JENS - LIFE WILL SEE YOU NOW Vinyl LP

Jens Lekman describes his new record, Life Will See You Now, playfully, but also honestly, as "a midlife-crisis disco album; it's an existentialist record, about seeing the consequences of your choices". It's a typical Lekman album in several ways: sly humour is key to it's heartfelt nature; it inverts pop's writing norm by making songs with sad concerns sound happy and songs with a happy subject sound sad; and it plays with notions of identity and the self. But, as the title suggests, it also represents a significant move forward, as if across a threshold. It's the more expansive, upbeat sound of a revitalised Lekman, who is just one of many characters in his new stories about the magic and messiness of different kinds of relationships.

Track List:

1.1 To Know Your Mission
1.2 Evening Prayer
1.3 Hotwire the Ferris Wheel
1.4 What's That Perfume That You Wear?
1.5 Our First Fight
2.1 Wedding in FinistA re
2.2 How We Met, the Long Version
2.3 How Can I Tell Him
2.4 Postcard #17
2.5 Dandelion Seed

Label: Secretly Canadian