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Jens Lekman is seriously rad. Hes without a doubt one of the most charming artists that I know of. His lovely, charming and heartwarming lyrics and sampling. From the moment I heard his You Are the Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That) I knew I was onto something special. Have not been dissapointed since that moment.

His new album is coming at us. I've been enjoying his Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo immensly the last weeks. Oh yeah.

According to a quote from Jens on the Secretly Canadian website, the album is a sort of love letter/kiss-off to the Kortedala neighborhood of Gothenburg that he calls home:

"What a depressing suburban hell this place is. Everyone goes to bed at nine, after that you can't see one single window lit up. You can walk for hours without meeting one single person. I used to like that, 'cause it meant I could go for endless walks and pretend the world was my own and I was the only one in it. But after a while I found out the hard way that there were others who couldn't sleep at night.

"On my way into town I got beat up and mugged one night three years ago. Since then it's happened so many times I've lost count. It's never been that bad, I've never ended up in the hospital or lost anything too valuable really. But it's the atmosphere and the small incidents that scare me. The guys who yell 'faggot' at me when I pass their balcony, the nazis hanging out in a nearby open garage, the old men with their binoculars who sit in their windows looking for anything suspicious to report, the dead cats that show up on the lawn outside my kitchen, the knock on my window at four a.m. this summer followed by a whispered 'when he opens you hit him in the head,' the neighbour I constantly find passed out in the staircase, the flicker of a million tv screens against the livingroom walls, the smoke from a million chainsmoking moms, the fact that the guy who lived in my apartment before me lay dead in the bathtub for three months before they found him.

"In Kortedala everyone's minding their own business. And I'm slowly turning into one of them so as soon as I've finished this record I will get the hell out of here."

Wohoooooo! September 5 is the date. Probaly will leak before that day - Im sure to grab both.

Tracklist
01 And I Remember Every Kiss
02 Sipping On the Sweet Nectar
03 The Opposite of Hallelujah
04 A Postcard to Nina
05 Into Eternity
06 I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
07 If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
08 Your Arms Around Me
09 Shirin
10 It Was a Strange Time in My Life
11 Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig
12 Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo

In other news, the new Sunset Rubdown just leaked today.

Damn. Its so good, im already deep into it. Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake and what more? Who knows - they keep popping up all the time. Spencer Krug is a productive guy, to say the least. I love all of it, more or less.

Check it out if you can. Today I also heard about Magic Weapon, another project. Have to check that out.

(By the way, stole some snippet from Pitchwitchfork. Oh yeah.)