Sold Date: March 3, 2015
Start Date: November 3, 2014
Final Price: $16.99 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 72493
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Howdy and welcome to my store! We just purchased a very large quantity of brand new records that have slight imperfections to the covers. The imperfections can be anything as minor as the shrinkwrap being opened or a slight dent or crease to one of the corners of the cover or as significant as all of the corners of the cover being creased, however these records are all unplayed and therefore the vinyl itself is in mint condition! Please see below for more specific details as to the imperfection for this particular record. As a result of this we have reduced the price on these records. These are the only copies we have so once they're gone that's it! LIMITED EDITION MINT GREEN VINYL! The green vinyl is very limited and once we are out of them that's it! Tracey Thorn wrote a song that reached Jens Lekman in the early stages of his new album, I Know What Love Isn't. In her song she sang "Oh Jens, oh Jens / your songs seem to look through a different lens / you're still so young, love ends just as easy as it's begun." A touching moment for the Swedish songwriter, having been a fan since his teens. But it came to him in a time when he found himself very confused and in doubt. He was changing and, subsequently, so were his songs. They weren't looking through that lens anymore. I Know What Love Isn't came out of a break up, something Jens didn't see as worth writing about at first. The songs began more fleeting than the last go around, on his 2007 album Night Falls Over Kortedala. The songs began building from images and memories and soon began to take their own route, one that Lekman wasn't privy to their destination. In "TheWorld Moves On" he paints a picture of a sweltering summer in the city of Melbourne where he lived while writing and recording the album. The hot days that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires, but also more mundane images of feeding possums in a park or getting in trouble with some guy on a scooter. It seems to lead nowhere at first but the aimlessness in itself reaches heartbreaking conclusions later on, summed up by the soaring chorus "…and you don't get over a broken heart, you just learn to carry it gracefully." Like Joan Didion once said that she writes entirely to find out what she's thinking, Jens wrote until he caught up with his thoughts. And of course they led him right back to the break up. Musically, I KnowWhat Love Isn't chooses an economic route. From the vast palette he created for Kortedala, he's only chosen a few somber colors this time around. There are strings but not a string section, an upright piano and not a grand, a single saxophone and gracenotes from a flute. The songs are lighter, almost aerodynamic, Jens explains - "I wanted the songs to take off almost unnoticeably, where the chorus is separated from the verse only through a small detail like a tambourine or a harmony. Like when you're in an airplane taking off and you look out the window and realize you're already in the air." A dry country piano makes "Become Someone Else's" lift high. Vocals from Melbourne singer Sophie Brous makes the chorus in "Erica America" soar. Strings pick up the title track and send it up to the sky without much effort or force. In the latter, Lekman once again points the way to distill essential truths from every day life vignettes while singing about a sham marriage. "I thought of the Friday nights when I'd be cruising up and down the street with my best friend in her old crappy Holden, talking about getting married to get me into the country. The idea was so appealing, that we would build this constructed relationship around a purpose rather than some vague feeling that could change at anytime. But in the end, the sham marriage is much too great a story to be kept secret. At least when you make a living from telling stories." Tracklisting: Every Little Hair Knows Your Name/ Erica America/ Become Someone Else's/ She Just Don't Want To Be With You Anymore/ Some Dandruff On Your Shoulder/ I Want A Pair Of Cowboy Boots/ The World Moves On/ The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love/ I Know What Love Isn't/ Every Little Hair Knows Your Name Record Condition: This record is brand new and unplayed however the shrinkwrap is open and the MP3 download code is not included! Check out my other acutions and save on shipping! Checkout my other auctions for lots more records and CDs. Only $2 shipping to add any other record in the USA! Win more then one item and save on shipping (only $2 for each additional LP in the USA!).

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