Jens Lekman

   
Artist: Jens Lekman

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Night Falls Over Kortedala

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Oh You're So Silent Jens

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16

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Sweden's Jens Lekman emerged from relation obscurity to quick ground himself as the ducky of the global indie pop position, winning widespread spat from fans and critics for his uncommonly witty and well-crafted pop songs. Born February 6, 1981, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Lekman exhibited little interest in music as a child, only at 14 was recruited to play bass in a friend's cover banding. Within weeks he was writing his possess original material, cursorily accumulating hundreds of songs. Assuming the alias Rocky Dennis (borrowed from the disfigured protagonist of the 1985 American moving-picture show Mask), Lekman recorded and released a series of limited edition CD-Rs beginning with 2001's The Budgie-Album. A class later, he compiled a assemblage of highlights and mailed the sole copy to the U.S. indie label Secretly Canadian, but remained largely unnamed until the 2003 EP Maple Leaves became something of a cause célèbre on Internet file-sharing services. The Swedish indie Service Records reissued Maple Leaves subsequently that same twelvemonth, and after abandoning his pseudonym once and for all with 2004's Stony Dennis in Heaven EP, Lekman issued his acclaimed full-length debut, When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, distributed in the U.S. via Secretly Canadian. The LP generated the Swedish Top Ten hit "You Are the Light," and in 2005 Lekman traveled the globe, issuing several tour-only EPs and collection his previous singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks as Oh You're So Silent Jens. Following this flurry of activeness, he proclaimed on his website plans for an lengthened hiatus from playacting, scrapping a planned soph LP and reportedly accepting a place at a local beano parlour; Lekman even so quit later simply deuce years on the caper and to the full rededicated himself to his musical pursuits. This dedication paid off with the handout of his best process to date, 2007's sensational record album Night Falls Over Kortadela.