“Summer is exhausting me with its exhaust fumes and empty promises.” Jens Lekman’s new album is called I Know What Love Isn’t, and its first single “Erica America” is true to that title: meet Jens 2K12, an elegant and articulate bummed-out human. When Lekman showed showed up at Williamsburg’s McCarren Park for his Northside set two Saturdays ago, he had a shaved head under a baseball cap. This one-shot video for lead single “Erica America” has Lekman’s bald dome bared, with him in a depressed man’s cardigan (remember when he and the band were all blaring white outfits?), and in a drab building, broken up by some moments of warm lighting orchestrated by director Marcus Söderlund. Not a Song Of Summer candidate, unless you are a heartbroken person looking for a songwriter to feel your pain. If so, this video is particularly for you:
(via SPIN)
I Know What Love Isn’t is out 9/4 via Secretly Canadian.
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I really enjoyed An Argument With Myself. I hope the newest album includes some tracks in the upbeat spirit of that ep or the gradiosity of Night Falls Over Kortedala.
Jens Lekman looks like a cross between Paul Bettany and Powder.
so powder’s dong was super white too, yes? or was it just big?
Only powder knows
This is a beautiful song. That walk-down with the ride cymbal is such a perfect little touch.
I so want this album to be good, but I’m afraid it won’t be. Jens has to be really careful not to fall into easy listening/adult-contempo. especially with touches like that sax solo.
Yes, because Jens has always been really careful about not pulling from taboo or unexpected genres.
Umm, sort of my point? He pulls from them so he has to be careful not to fall into them too deeply.
Well, if he dies soon (hopefully never!) John Malkovich would be a great candidate for the bio-pic. Unfortunately, I love Jens’ older material and this is just starting to border on lazy/boring. I don’t know…I feel like he may have just set a higher standard for himself too early in his career.
Dang, people are being mean to Jens. I might be the exception, but I like both the song and the new look.