Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
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Artist: Jens LekmanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Secretly Canadian
Soundtracks:
- And I Remember Every Kiss
- Sipping On The Sweet Nectar
- Opposite Of Hallelujah, The
- Postcard To Nina, A
- Into Eternity
- I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
- If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
- Your Arms Around Me
- Shirin
- It Was A Strange Time In My Life
- Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig
- Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo
Music reviews of Night Falls Over Kortedala
Music Review: way overrated
Rating: 1 Stars
I've listened to just about all the material Jens has released to date and there have been several brilliant tunes (Black Cab, I saw her at the antiwar-demonstration...) but many more not so special ones. I was hoping for a couple from the first category on this record but didn't find any.
And please stop with the Magnetic Fields and Morrisey comparisons. Stephen Merritt and Morrissey (with Marr) have both written dozens of classics. Jens, maybe a handful? I know he's got more in him!
If you're new to him, I recommend you check out his earlier stuff first.
Description of Night Falls Over Kortedala
Like a modern day Chet Baker, Jens loves to sing about heartache. This is his first album in over three years, and Kortedala refers to a neighborhood in his hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden - "a depressing suburban hell". It also refers to a vague musical pop sound with hints of tropicalia that has been coming out of Gothenburg's clubs the last few years. "Night Falls Over Kortedala" features many previously unreleased live favorites and guest vocals from label-mate Frida Hyvonen and El Perro del Mar.Halfway through the first track of Jens Lekman's finest offering yet, "And I Remember Every Kiss," a Lekman neophyte might be sure they've got him pegged. Here's another Scott-Walker-worshipping yungin; a precocious string-section crooner. To be sure, there's plenty of string-soaked melodrama here, and Lekman puts that modest Morrissey-esque croon to work throughout the album. But after the high camp Copa-Cabana disco of "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar," the breezy latin-flavored "Into Eternity," the acoustic lullaby of "Shirin" or the, uh, drive-in vibe of "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo," it's clear Lekman's ambition and sense of humor can't be confined to one small corner of imitation or appropriation. Appropriation--in the literal sense, for that matter--is one of Lekman's great strengths, as evidenced by the new context he gives his many perfect samples, be it a drum loop from the Residents and Renaldo & The Loaf record Title in Limbo, or any number of lifted orchestral bits. Lekman weaves many of his samples so seamlessly into his presentation, one is often at a loss to distinguish samples from live instruments. The end result is something like a new millennium Brill Building, with songcraft at the helm, but awash in modern production technique. Lekman's world masterfully pairs the electronic with the human. Lekman's also a pro at the sort of wry lyrical melancholia one associates with the aforementioned Morrissey, or other contemporaries like Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. He's a lot less caustic, but still plays the biographical narrator stewing in life's near misses. He's got a real silly streak, however, just as quick to pen couplets like "my heart is beating, beating like Ringo/as I pull into the drive-in bingo," or "I took my sister down to the ocean/but the ocean made me feel stupid." These lyrical gems illustrate one certainty. Night Falls Over Kortedala is unabashedly precious. Lekman's meticulously crafted, symphonic indie-pop is all saccharine indulgence, but hey, he owns it, and that makes the payoff all the more sweet. --Jason Pace
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