 Artist: Jens Lekman: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Indie Discography:  Night Falls Over Kortedala Year: 2007 Tracks: 12  Oh You're So Silent Jens Year: 2005 Tracks: 16 Sweden's Jens Lekman emerged from recounting obscurity to quick ground himself as the favourite of the global indie pop position, winning widespread spat from fans and critics for his uncommonly witty and well-crafted pop songs. Born February 6, 1981, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Lekman exhibited little interestingness in music as a child, alone at 14 was recruited to play bass in a friend's cover band. Within weeks he was writing his possess original material, quickly accumulating hundreds of songs. Assuming the alias Rocky Dennis (borrowed from the disfigured champion of the 1985 American moving-picture express Mask), Lekman recorded and released a series of limited edition CD-Rs start with 2001's The Budgie-Album. A year later, he compiled a assemblage of highlights and mailed the sole copy to the U.S. indie label Secretly Canadian, but remained largely unnamed until the 2003 EP Maple Leaves became something of a cause célèbre on Internet file-sharing services. The Swedish indie Service Records reissued Maple Leaves subsequently that same twelvemonth, and after abandoning his anonym once and for all with 2004's Stony Dennis in Heaven EP, Lekman issued his acclaimed full-length debut, When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, distributed in the U.S. via Secretly Canadian. The LP generated the Swedish Top Ten hit "You Are the Light," and in 2005 Lekman traveled the world, issuing several tour-only EPs and aggregation his premature singles, B-sides, and digest tracks as Oh You're So Silent Jens. Following this snow flurry of action, he announced on his website plans for an lengthened respite from playing, scrapping a planned sophomore LP and reportedly accepting a office at a local bingo parlour; Lekman even so quit subsequently simply deuce years on the caper and to the full rededicated himself to his musical pursuits. This dedication paid off with the handout of his best process to date, 2007's sensational record album Night Falls Over Kortadela. |
Denver McCarthy
