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Jens Lekman releasing a new song every week in 2015 (listen to the first two)

by Bill Pearis

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Jens Lekman has only released two albums in the past 10 years, but he’s looking to amp up his productivity though his Postcards project which promises a new song every week in 2015 posted to his Soundcloud page:

Here’s my new years resolution for 2015: While working on my next album, I will sit down once a week, write down my thoughts, turn them into a song and share it with you directly. Think of these little songs as postcards. Little greetings from me to you.

You see, I spend a lot of time on my songs, on their details. I sweep the streets that my characters walk on and polish every doorknob until I feel confident to let other people in. But it does lead to a very isolated creative phase.

And I’ve been longing to share my thoughts and life with you a bit more. I’ve been longing to write about things that make sense one particular day but that might make no sense once the album comes out.

Then at the end of this year we can sit down you and me and listen through these 52 songs, and remember where we were and when we were there, who we kissed and who we missed. I’m looking forward to that.

So far he’s keeping his word. “Postcard #1,” a simple voice and piano sketch, was posted last Friday (1/2) and today (1/9) we get “Postcard #2” which is a more fully-formed song, sampling the horns of Abdullah Ibrahim’s “Mamma.” It also does the impossible (well, for non-Eminem people at least), successfully rhyming something with “orange” (“bench,” and he makes it work, mostly). You can listen to both “Postcards” (and download them, too) below.

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