Album artwork for Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman describes his new record, Life Will See You Now, playfully, but also honestly, as "a midlife-crisis disco album; it's an existentialist record, about seeing the consequences of your choices". It's a typical Lekman album in several ways: sly humour is key to its heartfelt nature; it inverts pop's writing norm by making songs with sad concerns sound happy and songs with a happy subject sound sad; and it plays with notions of identity and the self. But, as the title suggests, it also represents a significant move forward, as if across a threshold. It's the more expansive, upbeat sound of a revitalised Lekman, who is just one of many characters in his new stories about the magic and messiness of different kinds of relationships.

Jens Lekman

Life Will See You Now

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Album artwork for Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman
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Released 02/17/2017Catalog Number

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Album artwork for Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman
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Jens Lekman

Life Will See You Now

Secretly Canadian
Album artwork for Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman
LP

$17.99

Released 02/17/2017Catalog Number

SC339lp

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Album artwork for Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman
CD

$13.99

CD

Released 02/17/2017Catalog Number

SC339

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Jens Lekman describes his new record, Life Will See You Now, playfully, but also honestly, as "a midlife-crisis disco album; it's an existentialist record, about seeing the consequences of your choices". It's a typical Lekman album in several ways: sly humour is key to its heartfelt nature; it inverts pop's writing norm by making songs with sad concerns sound happy and songs with a happy subject sound sad; and it plays with notions of identity and the self. But, as the title suggests, it also represents a significant move forward, as if across a threshold. It's the more expansive, upbeat sound of a revitalised Lekman, who is just one of many characters in his new stories about the magic and messiness of different kinds of relationships.