Admittedly, Jens Lekman made this mix available up on his website about a month ago – but I’ve only just discovered it thanks to fellow Lekman uber fan and TLOBF staff writer Laura Snapes.
I’ve just finished listening to his adorable mix May 17th, Two Thousand and Fine: ‘The Summer Never Ends’ and had to post it up.. It contains some priceless commentary from the great man, some little snippets of the samples he used on his last album Night Falls Over Kortedala and also the recent single from fellow Service Records labelmates and super influential Swedes The Embassy.
Tracklisting is:
(excerpt from) The Summer Never Ends /// I Really Think That We Can Make It Girl /// Nicolette Larsson – Lotta Love /// The Embassy – State 08 /// (excerpt from) New Directions /// Coke Escovedo – I Wouldn’t Change A Thing /// Filippo Trecca – La Morte Dell’erminia /// His name is Mikael Carlsson, her name is Alicia Keys /// Lamont Dozier – Blue Sky and Silver Bird /// Cat Stevens – If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out /// Jeff Perry – Love Don’t Come No Stronger /// Good News – Australia /// Baby’s Gang – America /// American Breed – Always You
Just click here and scroll on down to the May 17th post to find the link.
In other Lekman related news. I also discovered a video by a band called The Sweptaways today which features Jens on vocals. It’s pretty nice and probably the only new Jens-related material we’ll hear in 2009 – watch below whilst you’re waiting for the mix to download.
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fwiw – the alecia keys phone conversation half way through is in both parts the coolest AND funniest thing i’ve heard all year