Indier-than-thou music bloggers are currently going crazy for Jens Lekman, which is no surprise since the Swedish troubadour is just the kind of thing nerdish music journalists love, in that he’s slightly twee, deliciously obscure, a touch melancholic, and possessed of a preppy lyrical voice that enables one to reference flouncy rock-hack touchstones such as The Magnetic Fields.
Lekman’s back catalogue is knotty and complex (so bonus indie points there), made up of numerous self-released EPs and compilations of older, hard-to-find releases. The track we’ve chosen today, Black Cab, is from the second of those compilations, 2005’s Oh You’re So Silent Jens.
It’s a gorgeous, honeyed little song, whose tinkling harpsichord and breathy vocal places it somewhere between the ornate chamber-pop of Rufus Wainwright and the fey, shrinking-violet charm of Belle And Sebastian.
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12:39 PM | 31/10/2007
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listen to this guy, and welcome to three years ago
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