Album Review: Songs For Other People's Weddings by Jens Lekman

Swedish singer songwriter’s latest album looks at love in all its myriad forms, and does so quite brilliantly Back in 2004, Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman released his debut album, When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog. One of the tracks was called If You Ever Need A Singer To Sing At Your Wedding, and it was a song that was to open up a whole new career path for Lekman. For many fans took the song literally and invited Lekman to sing at their wedding – with streaming services robbing musicians of a large proportion of their income, it was an offer that the Swede was more than happy to take up.

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Despite having several songs attesting to his experience as a wedding singer to his name already, Jens Lekman doesn’t seem like the most natural choice for the gig. Sure, the man knows his way around a sampler (see 2007’s breakthrough Night Falls over Kortadela), and his catalogue includes many love songs capable of prompting dancefloor enthusiasm (see “How We Met, The Long Version” on 2017’s masterful Life Will See You Now). At the same time, several of his artistic hallmarks run against the typical grain of the wedding musician.

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