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Oh You're So Silent Jens (CD)

By: Jens Lekman (Artist)

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Jens Lekman Artist Snapshot:

Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman makes pop music that is both wry and plaintive, not unlike his American counterpart in skeptical romanticism, Magnetic Fields' mastermind Stephen Merritt. Lekman achieved a certain level of stardom in his native country after several years of home recording and self-releasing; however, he remains on the fringes of the pop marketplace in the United States. His 2005 odds-and-sods collection, OH YOU'RE SO SILENT JENS, was released on the tiny Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian.

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DISC 1 for Oh You're So Silent Jens (CD) Album By Jens Lekman (Artist)
1   At The Dept. Of Forgotten Songs
2   Maple Leaves - (EP Version)
3   Sky Phenomenon
4   Pocketful Of Money
5   Black Cab
6   Someone To Share My Love With
7   Rocky Dennis' Farewell Song
8   Rocky Dennis In Heaven
9   Jens Lekman's Farewell Song To Rocky Dennis
10   Julie - (remix)
11   I Saw Her In The Anti War Demonstration
12   Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill, A
13   Man Walks Into A Bar, A
14   Another Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill
15   F-Word
16   Wrong Hands, The
17   Maple Leaves - (7" version)
 

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Review

Uncut (p.85) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Arch, sardonic and playful, this is smartly constructed pop served up with mighty aplomb."
CMJ (p.4) - "For Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, life is a comic tragedy of misunderstanding. Luckily pain makes great EPs..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] surprisingly consistent listen....The gushing 'Maple Leaves' and 'Black Cab' are highlights..."

Title Note

Personnel include: Jens Lekman; Linda Anderson, Ellen Hjalmarsson (violin); Marcus Cato (trumpet); Markus Gorsch (drums); Emma Bates (background vocals).

Recording information: 2003 - 2004.

If you don't know Jens Lekman, you should, and OH YOU'RE SO SILENT JENS, a compilation of his best work from the early 2000s, is an excellent place to get acquainted with this charming singer/songwriter. Bringing together work from his EPs and proper albums with singles and remixes, the set is solid through and through.

Like Stephen Merritt and his inspirations, George and Ira Gershwin, Lekman writes those rare songs that are funny, tender, clever, caustic, and heartbreakingly poignant all at once. His use of samples (often simple, yet perfectly so) and orchestrated chamber pop arrangements reveal a deep study of pop knowledge. But beyond both Lekman's skills as a sound architect and his uncanny knack with a beautiful melody, it is his surprisingly powerful lyrics and strangely affecting deadpan delivery that help make this a small-scale pop masterpiece.

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