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JENS LEKMAN - Oh You're So Silent Jens
| StylusMagazine | | Most people live lives pitched somewhere between total naïvete and complete cynicism. Not Swedish troubadour (literally, a lyric poet who writes of love) Jens Lekman; he manages to exist in both at once. The man is one of the few human beings currently alive who could cover both “The Rainbow Connection” and “No Action” without descending into either self-parody or leaden irony....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Who's to say if Jens Lekman's sadness is genuine or not? The young Swede does not bawl, he never emotes effusively and he certainly doesn't bare the depths of his inner-darkness with overly personal lyrics. What Lekman does is paint sadness in its most elegant and desirable light....full text |
| | Popmatters | | A singer-songwriter perfectly suited for today's iPod generation, Jens Lekman stated in a recent PopMatters interview that he has no desire whatsoever to record a proper album, opting to concentrate solely on individual songs instead. It's a bold thing for the young Swedish prodigy to say, but considering the volume of songs he has recorded since his late teens, and the surprisingly high quality of the majority of them, it's best to let the young maverick do things his own way....full text |
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