Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now (Cassette)

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Jens Lekman describes his new record playfully but also honestly, as "€œa midlife-crisis disco album; it'€™s an existentialist record, about seeing the consequences of your choices."€

Life Will See You Now is a typical Lekman record 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.  However, 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.