The beginning of a year is always the best time for a few resolutions. Beloved Swedish pop maestro JENS LEKMAN is the latest one to share his personal goals for 2015. He’s going to document the recording process of his new album in musical form as he stated in a just released letter: ‘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.’
The first part of his Postcard series comes in form of a tender little piece of piano pop with the lyrics explaining the concept of that ambitious plan once again. You can read the full letter by JENS LEKMAN right here and listen to Postcard #1 below.
Happy new year!
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.
Yours truly
Jens Lekman
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