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Artist: Jens Lekman |Label: Secretly Canadian |Format: 2xLP |Genre: Rock | LP condition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed
Jens Lekman
Songs For Other People’s Weddings
Secretly Canadian 391-C1 – 2 LPs on limited OPAQUE YELLOW vinyl
Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But hes also a wedding singer for a reason. Ever since his 2004 song If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding) he has had a side gig fielding requests from strangers to sing at their weddings. For over twenty years, hes had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other Peoples Weddings. Originally this album was meant to contain the songs from the weddings in the book, but as the novel came together, Lekman began to imagine what happened between the books chapters. The book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths. The book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Stories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa. The result is an exploration of what we sing about when we sing about love — euphoria, doubt, dislocation, tenderness, conflict, playfulness, gratitude, ingratitude, longing, belonging, questioning, answering. Its very much about a relationship and how its reflected through the relationships and weddings of others, but most of all its a lovesong to lovesongs.
Including:
The First Lovesong
A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Candy From a Stranger
Two Little Pigs
Speak to Me in Music
With You I Can Hear My Own Voice
I Want to Want You Again
GOT-JFK
Wedding in Brooklyn
For Skye
Increasingly Obsolete
On a Pier, On the Hudson
Wedding in Leipzig LEJ-GOT
You Have One New Message
Just For One Moment
The Last Lovesong
SEALED NEW 2 LPs on limited OPAQUE YELLOW vinyl
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