release date: Sep. 5, 2007
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,88]
producer: Jens Lekman
label: Service - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "And I Remember Every Kiss" (4 / 5) - 2. "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar" (4,5 / 5) - 3. "The Opposite of Hallelujah" (4,5 / 5) (live) - 4. "A Postcard to Nina" (5 / 5) - 5. "Into Eternity" (4 / 5) - 8. "Your Arms Around Me" (5 / 5) - 9. "Shirin" - 11. "Kanske är jag kär i dig" (4 / 5) - 12. "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo"
2nd studio album release by Swedish singer / songwriter chamber pop artist Jens Lekman. In my mind, it's also his best album. The songs are recorded from 2004 - 2007 but are not previously released. Many artists have made attempts in the genre of romantic chamber pop in the 1990s and in the new millennium, but few do it so well. It may be cheesy, and over the hill but hey!, It's twee pop [AND better than Belle and Sebastian], he sings so well, and his songs are cut as highly original compositions with a few samples here and there.
In Scandinavia, he has a musical "soul brother" in Teitur from the Faroe Islands, and they're both sparkling great (new) romantics singing about lost love and other boring stuff like that.
This release is simply one of the best in 2007.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, The Guardian 5 / 5 stars ]
