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Night Falls Over Kortedala is the second full length release by Swedish pop singer Jens Lekman. Announced on 25 July 2007, and advertised on Lekman’s website as a “a collection of recordings 2004-2007”, the album was released in Scandinavia on the label Service on 5 September 2007 and worldwide on 9 October 2007 through Secretly Canadian.

 

The subject matter includes Lekman’s first kiss—supposedly at age 19 (“And I Remember Every Kiss”)—and being introduced as the boyfriend of his lesbian friend to her parents (“A Postcard to Nina”). “And I Remember Every Kiss” contains a short sample from “Theme from Sand Pebbles” also known as “And We Were Lovers” written by Leslie Bricusse and Jerry Goldsmith performed by Enoch Light.

 

The song “Your Arms Around Me” appears on the soundtrack of the 2009 film, Whip It.

 

Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee. Traveling our globe as a wide open receptor of all it has to offer, Lekman repurposes for his own oeuvre the world's great, lost pop hooks of past and present. He breathes into them his droll senses of humor, romance and melody and gives them a newfound buoyancy. Since his 2004 trifecta of EPs (Maples Leaves, Rocky Dennis in Heaven, You Are the Light) and right on through his acclaimed 2007 full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Lekman has made hopeless romantics of us all. In a musical language that has roots in the work of Arthur Russell, The Magnetic Fields, Calvin Johnson and Modern Lovers, Lekman's songs serve as a reminder to look closer at the world around us, to appreciate the beauty when it's both in and out of context; at its most heartbreaking, its most loving, and its most absurd.

 

Track List:

And I Remember Every Kiss   [2:59]

Sipping on the Sweet Nectar   [4:11]

The Opposite of Hallelujah   [4:21]

A Postcard to Nina   [5:01]

Into Eternity   [3:44]

I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You   [3:48]

If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)   [3:23]

Your Arms Around Me   [5:02]

Shirin   [3:56]

It Was a Strange Time in My Life   [5:08]

Kanske Är Jag Kär i Dig (English: Maybe I’m in Love with You)    [4:43]

Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo   [4:16]

LP by Jens Lekman is factory-sealed new. It has never been played and has always been kept in its original packaging. The LP is not a promo or cutout. There are no marks or punches of any kind. All our CDs and vinyl are new! If you have any questions or want to see additional photos, just email us.

 

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