Jens Lekman has introduced a tour and his first solo album in eight years. Songs for Other People’s Weddings, a companion LP to a book of the same name by Lekman and bestselling writer David Levithan, arrives September 12 through Secretly Canadian, whereas the novel is due out August 5 through Abrams Books. Main the document is the only “Candy From a Stranger,” which comes with a Rena Johnson–edited video. Watch under.
Songs for Different Folks’s Weddings attracts instantly from Lekman’s personal pivot towards a facet profession as a marriage singer. The gigs began accumulating after he wrote the 2004 music “If You Ever Want a Stranger (To Sing at Your Marriage ceremony)” and followers reached out requesting to ebook him for their very own nuptials. As if to show his credentials, “Sweet From a Stranger” paperwork his unlikely foray into marriage ceremonies by collaging clips from weddings at which he’s carried out for its music video.
The Swedish singer-songwriter’s new LP follows his 2017 solo full-length, Life Will See You Now, in addition to Correspondence, his 2019 collaborative album with Annika Norlin. Lekman additionally reissued his 2005 compilation Oh You’re So Silent Jens and 2007 album Night Falls Over Kortedala with new redux variations of choose tracks, beforehand unreleased songs, and cassette diaries from the albums’ period.
Lekman will tour North America this autumn in assist of Songs for Different Folks’s Weddings. He’s at present slated to begin the tour on November 8 in Minneapolis. From there, he hits up cities like Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, earlier than concluding the run on December 3 in Seattle. Discover Lekman’s full listing of tour dates under.
Examine Evening Falls Over Kortedala at No. 153 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s.”
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Songs for Different Folks’s Weddings:
01 The First Lovesong
02 A Tuxedo Sewn for Two
03 Sweet From a Stranger
04 Two Little Pigs [ft. Matilda Sargren]
05 Communicate to Me in Music
06 With You I Can Hear My Personal Voice
07 I Wish to Need You Once more [ft. Matilda Sargren and Peter Oren]
08 GOT-JFK
09 Marriage ceremony in Brooklyn
10 For Skye
11 More and more Out of date
12 On a Pier, on the Hudson [ft. Matilda Sargren]
13 Marriage ceremony in Leipzig
14 LEJ-GOT
15 You Have One New Message [ft. Matilda Sargren]
16 Only for One Second
17 The Final Lovesong
Jens Lekman:
11-08 Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdam Bar & Corridor
11-09 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Corridor
11-10 Toronto, Ontario – The Nice Corridor
11-12 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
11-13 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
11-14 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
11-16 Brooklyn, NY – Music Corridor of Williamsburg
11-17 Washington, D.C. – Union Stage
11-19 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Corridor
11-21 Atlanta, GA – The EARL
11-22 Nashville, TN – Exit/In
11-24 Dallas, TX – Deep Ellum
11-25 Austin, TX – Mohawk
11-28 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
11-29 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
11-30 San Francisco, CA – The Unbiased
12-02 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
12-03 Seattle, WA – Neumos
