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Secretly Canadian will celebrate its 25th anniversary this summer with a series of reissues, singles, and more — raising money to fight homelessness in Bloomington, Indiana.
The label kicked off their year-long SC25 project with reissues of the War on Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues, Jens Lekman’s When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, Tig Notaro’s Live, and Whitney’s Light Upon the Lake, all out June 4th. They also announced a singles series — featuring covers, rarities, and more — starting with Stella Donnelly tackling Lekman’s “If I Could...
The label kicked off their year-long SC25 project with reissues of the War on Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues, Jens Lekman’s When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, Tig Notaro’s Live, and Whitney’s Light Upon the Lake, all out June 4th. They also announced a singles series — featuring covers, rarities, and more — starting with Stella Donnelly tackling Lekman’s “If I Could...
- 4/16/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
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Bronze Horse for best film goes to The Selfish Giant. More wins for Fruitvale Station, Miss Violence and Screen Star of Tomorrow George MacKay.Scroll down for full list of winners
UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).
It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.
The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”
The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...
UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).
It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.
The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”
The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...
- 11/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With his pianist stuck in New York City amidst the Hurricane Sandy chaos, Jens Lekman used his supreme songwriting skills to take action. Calling upon his fans via social media, Lekman offered to write a song for anyone up to drive the band member from New York to Boston, where he could board a plane and join the tour on the West Coast. To the delight of Lekman’s fan base, he’s made good on this promise. Lekman has released the track “Olivia & Maddy,” named for the good samaritans who rose to action. On his blog, Lekman assures that this...
- 1/9/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Jens Lekman is certainly lacking his usual wryness and wit in these ten tracks of heartbreak and acceptance. His last album, Night Falls Over Kortedala, managed to be both eclectic and convincingly sequenced into a brilliantly sweet and funny collection of songs. Lekman considers I Know What Love Isn’t to be his debut, since it is the first to be recorded cohesively as such, unlike Kortedala which was a collection of songs he had accumulated over time. The cohesiveness is both this album’s strength and weakness: whereas you could usually dip into the recesses of his discography guiltlessly, there is a strong narrative of love lost in these ten tracks that encourage a complete listen through.
A good contemporary reference point for this album’s sound outside of Lekman’s discography is the recent lounge-pop (sounds horrifically dull, but give it a chance!) stylings of Kaputt by Destroyer.
Jens Lekman is certainly lacking his usual wryness and wit in these ten tracks of heartbreak and acceptance. His last album, Night Falls Over Kortedala, managed to be both eclectic and convincingly sequenced into a brilliantly sweet and funny collection of songs. Lekman considers I Know What Love Isn’t to be his debut, since it is the first to be recorded cohesively as such, unlike Kortedala which was a collection of songs he had accumulated over time. The cohesiveness is both this album’s strength and weakness: whereas you could usually dip into the recesses of his discography guiltlessly, there is a strong narrative of love lost in these ten tracks that encourage a complete listen through.
A good contemporary reference point for this album’s sound outside of Lekman’s discography is the recent lounge-pop (sounds horrifically dull, but give it a chance!) stylings of Kaputt by Destroyer.
- 9/14/2012
- by Darren Millard
- Obsessed with Film
Jens Lekman’s third album begins with a short overture titled “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name,” a scene-setting instrumental that lets you know right away that this is going to be his easy listening album. The piano plunks out a simple, melancholy melody; the strings swell bittersweetly; the guitar strums gently. It’s all very perky in its glumness, and only a little bit cheesy. It’s nothing new and surprising, though. Ever since he scored a minor internet hit with “Black Cab” eight years ago, the Swedish singer/songwriter has been hinting at this particular sound, flirting shamelessly with the saccharine....
- 9/4/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Jens Lekman, Sweden’s soft-hearted, astonishingly sincere response to a nasty, capricious culture suffused by irony, artificiality, and disingenuity, is coming back to North America this fall. According to Consequence Of Sound, Lekman will be ambling around our shores beginning October 1, in support of his forthcoming record I Know What Love Isn’t. He’ll be in Toronto shortly thereafter, with an October 4 stop at the Phoenix. Lekman also revealed the first single from that record, a bittersweet ballad called “Erica America.” The chorus repeats “Erica America, I wish I’d never met you” and while it may ...
- 6/25/2012
- avclub.com
Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society: Mirage Friday 2/17 at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, Pa Saturday 2/18 at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY
No matter how mainstream and unhip a band is, there is always the chance that it will become so unhip that its very unhipness will make it hip. Especially if something's got actual merits, after a sufficient amount of time has passed, distance will bring the perspective that says that the band's demerits have been overstated and are unfairly overshadowing its value. Throw in a healthy dose of nostalgia for something fondly remembered, and the "fifty million [fill-in-the-blank] fans can't be wrong" syndrome turns out to be true.
There may be no better, or more deserving, example of this than Fleetwood Mac. So popular as to have been ubiquitous, and thus rebelled against and held in contempt, yet such consummate musicians and songsmiths that even their lesser work holds up quite well. So...
No matter how mainstream and unhip a band is, there is always the chance that it will become so unhip that its very unhipness will make it hip. Especially if something's got actual merits, after a sufficient amount of time has passed, distance will bring the perspective that says that the band's demerits have been overstated and are unfairly overshadowing its value. Throw in a healthy dose of nostalgia for something fondly remembered, and the "fifty million [fill-in-the-blank] fans can't be wrong" syndrome turns out to be true.
There may be no better, or more deserving, example of this than Fleetwood Mac. So popular as to have been ubiquitous, and thus rebelled against and held in contempt, yet such consummate musicians and songsmiths that even their lesser work holds up quite well. So...
- 2/17/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Emil Svanängen has always been more adept at texture than hooks. Even upbeat songs, like “Airport Surroundings,” from 2009’s Dear John drift into kraut-like hypnosis, the insistence of the rhythm overrunning Svanängen’s hushed croon. This isn’t to discount Svanängen’s work as Loney Dear outright, but rather to acknowledge the crucial difference that makes the frequent comparisons to artists like Jens Lekman ring a bit hollow. This is especially true on Hall Music, Loney Dear’s third properly released full-length (not counting the three albums Svanängen self-released before getting picked up by Sub Pop for Loney Dear’s stateside debut, 2007’s Loney, Noir)....
- 10/4/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
It’s understandable that lots of folks like to draw parallels between the music of Jens Lekman and, say, Morrissey or Belle & Sebastian. Why? Because there are a whole lot of similarities there, to be sure. But more than either of those two indie mainstays, the artist that Lekman most reminds this writer of is Steely Dan. This is not because Lekman’s voice is reminiscent of Donald Fagen’s, or that his arrangements evoke fern-bar coke binges in the same way that Steely Dan’s does. No, it’s because, more than anything else, Jens Lekman’s music is uncannily precise. His lyrics (florid,...
- 9/20/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Jens Lekman is a singer-songwriter made for the social-networking era. He’s obviously unfamiliar with the concept of “over-sharing”: His lyrics are so detailed and so personal, they could be a series of strung-together status updates. On the new Ep An Argument With Myself, those details largely deal in dissatisfaction with Lekman’s native Sweden: “Waiting For Kirsten” sets a schoolboy crush on Kirsten Dunst against a dreary Nordic backdrop of unemployment lines and health-care bureaucracy, while the rubbery reggae-disco number “New Directions” begins by plotting the route out of Lekman’s native Gothenburg. Feeling like a tourist in his ...
- 9/20/2011
- avclub.com
Instant access to almost any song you can think of, free personalized radio--digital music's time has come. How can you take advantage of the streaming riches without tanking your workday?
With the U.S. launch of Spotify, music fans who spend their day at a computer pretty much have their every wish granted. But it’s also a workplace curse, because you can now endlessly search and queue up tracks (Spotify), stream algorithmically perfect tunes (Pandora), and groove with your friends (Turntable.fm). But can you get anything done in the meantime?
Then again, does any music actually help you crank on deadline?Music is a subtle but strong mood agent. The masters of commercial and enterprise background music, Muzak, have a host of self-serving research assembled (direct Pdf link there) that suggests music can lower stress and improve productivity. Workers in a British bank cleared 22.3% more checks with “engaging...
With the U.S. launch of Spotify, music fans who spend their day at a computer pretty much have their every wish granted. But it’s also a workplace curse, because you can now endlessly search and queue up tracks (Spotify), stream algorithmically perfect tunes (Pandora), and groove with your friends (Turntable.fm). But can you get anything done in the meantime?
Then again, does any music actually help you crank on deadline?Music is a subtle but strong mood agent. The masters of commercial and enterprise background music, Muzak, have a host of self-serving research assembled (direct Pdf link there) that suggests music can lower stress and improve productivity. Workers in a British bank cleared 22.3% more checks with “engaging...
- 7/19/2011
- by Kevin Purdy
- Fast Company
Lightest Feud Ever! Listen to this Brutal war of words between British Champions League goalkeepers Jens Lehmann (not Jens Lekman) and Tim Wiese: Star goalkeeper Jens Lehmann is suing another goalie for telling a TV audience he belonged in the “Muppet Show.” While working as a television commentator in September, Lehmann criticized the performance of Tim Wiese of Werder Bremen… Wiese responded a day later in a newspaper, saying Lehmann should “go to the Muppet Show” and be treated “on a couch.” Lehmann has filed a lawsuit and is demanding more than $28,000 for having his “personal rights violated.” A Munich court will hear the case this week. That’s not an insult! Dude, do you realize how many amazing famous people have gone on The Muppet Show? He’s basically saying you’re on the level of Steve Martin, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash, which is neither an insult nor something you should sue over.
- 4/5/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
“My counselor, she says I gotta grow up now, whatever that means.” So sings—or yelps, actually—Daniel Smith during “Grow Up,” and judging from the way he’s smoothed out most of his famously rough edges on Best Of Gloucester County, it seems he took the advice to mean it was time for him to try to go normal with his off-kilter folk-pop. Of course, nothing Smith touches will ever seem commonplace as long as his cartoonishly unhinged voice is involved. Things get playfully weird in songs like “People’s Partay” and “Lil Norge,” the latter featuring Jens Lekman ...
- 2/22/2011
- avclub.com
If you're not familiar with the bittersweet pop tunes of Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman this is probably as good an introduction as any (but really, you should do yourself a favor and go pick up "Night Falls Over Kortedala" right now). Anyway, Lekman recently played a show at L.A.'s Mondrian Hotel where he unveiled a brand new song titled “Waiting for Kirsten.” The tune is classic Lekman, with the tunesmith recounting his failed attempts and missed opportunities to meet Dunst when she was in Gothenburg last summer filming Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia" (how apropos) at the same time as Jens…...
- 12/11/2010
- The Playlist
Perhaps at the exact second you read these words, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman is working on new material for a follow-up to his last album, 2007’s Night Falls On Kortedala. To tide everyone over until this album’s Tba release date, he has revealed a new song, “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love,” which is available for free....
- 7/30/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
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- 2/13/2010
- Extra
By Aaron Hillis
A documentary cannot withstand the corrosion of time based on compelling subject matter alone. I learned this a few years ago while writing copy for an indie distribution label, whose acquisitions team had a rash tendency to pick up decades-old docs simply because they were Academy Award nominees. Sometimes they were still engaging under all that dust, but more often than not there were traits that dated them worse than the fashions worn within: static talking-head interviews shot practically but uninspiringly against bland or ugly backdrops, a schoolmarm's discipline for the purist limitations of vérité and an exhausting dryness that underscores how little use films are as strict conveyers of data -- of course, Wikipedia wasn't yet invented, so maybe information was enough back then?
Plenty of documentarians today still rely on the same old creative crutches, but in the year 2008, the docs that rubbed up against...
A documentary cannot withstand the corrosion of time based on compelling subject matter alone. I learned this a few years ago while writing copy for an indie distribution label, whose acquisitions team had a rash tendency to pick up decades-old docs simply because they were Academy Award nominees. Sometimes they were still engaging under all that dust, but more often than not there were traits that dated them worse than the fashions worn within: static talking-head interviews shot practically but uninspiringly against bland or ugly backdrops, a schoolmarm's discipline for the purist limitations of vérité and an exhausting dryness that underscores how little use films are as strict conveyers of data -- of course, Wikipedia wasn't yet invented, so maybe information was enough back then?
Plenty of documentarians today still rely on the same old creative crutches, but in the year 2008, the docs that rubbed up against...
- 12/23/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
By Aaron Hillis
Joachim Trier's mother was a documentarian, his father a sound department tech, his grandfather a Cannes-selected filmmaker, and his distant cousin Lars von Trier, so is it any surprise that the feature debut of this Copenhagen-born, Norwegian-based director has already turned out to be one of the year's best imports? An invigoratingly kinetic punk rock ode to young intellectual camaraderie that's as funny and sexy as it is haunting and sad, "Reprise" knocks chronology and narrative structure on their standardized asses to detail the friendship between twentysomething writers Erik (Espen Klouman-Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie). Beginning with the two dreaming rebels standing at a mailbox about to ship their first novels to publishers, "Reprise" digressively dazzles in the moments long after, way before, and several hops in between as one becomes famous, the other hustles in his shadow, and the pressures of reality bring them...
Joachim Trier's mother was a documentarian, his father a sound department tech, his grandfather a Cannes-selected filmmaker, and his distant cousin Lars von Trier, so is it any surprise that the feature debut of this Copenhagen-born, Norwegian-based director has already turned out to be one of the year's best imports? An invigoratingly kinetic punk rock ode to young intellectual camaraderie that's as funny and sexy as it is haunting and sad, "Reprise" knocks chronology and narrative structure on their standardized asses to detail the friendship between twentysomething writers Erik (Espen Klouman-Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie). Beginning with the two dreaming rebels standing at a mailbox about to ship their first novels to publishers, "Reprise" digressively dazzles in the moments long after, way before, and several hops in between as one becomes famous, the other hustles in his shadow, and the pressures of reality bring them...
- 5/14/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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