Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People's Weddings - 2 LP set on limited colored vinyl

Jens Lekman
Songs For Other People's Weddings
Secretly Canadian 391-C1 - 2 LPs on limited OPAQUE YELLOW vinyl 

Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But he’s also a wedding singer for a reason. Ever since his 2004 song “If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding)” he has had a side gig fielding requests from strangers to sing at their weddings. For over twenty years, he’s had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other People’s Weddings. Originally this album was meant to contain the songs from the weddings in the book, but as the novel came together, Lekman began to imagine what happened between the book’s chapters. The book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths. The book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Stories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa. The result is an exploration of what we sing about when we sing about love -- euphoria, doubt, dislocation, tenderness, conflict, playfulness, gratitude, ingratitude, longing, belonging, questioning, answering. It’s very much about a relationship and how it’s reflected through the relationships and weddings of others, but most of all it’s a lovesong to lovesongs.

   Including: 
The First Lovesong 
A Tuxedo Sewn For Two 
Candy From a Stranger 
Two Little Pigs 
Speak to Me in Music
With You I Can Hear My Own Voice
I Want to Want You Again 
GOT-JFK
Wedding in Brooklyn 
For Skye 
Increasingly Obsolete 
On a Pier, On the Hudson 
Wedding in Leipzig LEJ-GOT
You Have One New Message 
Just For One Moment 
The Last Lovesong 

SEALED NEW 2 LPs on limited OPAQUE YELLOW vinyl