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Feb 13, 2017Yielding vibrant optimism where Lekman had typically sulked with a smile. Life is the perfect pick-me-up for the winter of our discontent.
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Feb 9, 2017His muse was rekindled in 2015, when he decided to write a song for each week, and it’s burning brightly on his fourth, brilliant full-length.
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Feb 17, 2017It reveals Lekman as a maturing songwriter and human being who’s able to roll with the life’s uncertainty and continue to make beautiful art about it.
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Apr 18, 2017The result is his most fully realized album to date, and a reminder after those lower-profile years that Lekman’s voice is a singular and valuable one.
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Feb 22, 2017The triumph of Life Will See You Now is how it suggests that the 36-year-old Lekman has never been more skilled at his craft, or had more stories to tell.
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Feb 21, 2017This fourth album by Gothenburg’s master of the indie story song song finds him reinvigorated after 2012’s heartbroken I Know What Love Isn’t, kicked up the arse by drum machines.
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Feb 21, 2017An album that occasionally feels uneven but is executed with such heart, joy and vigour that it’s difficult not to love.
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Feb 16, 2017A generous, pacifistic record about the dynamics of friendship and the grace of listening--both, however coincidentally, apt palliatives for a tense, hostile global moment.
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Feb 15, 2017Life Will See You Now tackles life's most drastic ups and downs with good-natured empathy, making it both complex and comforting.
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Feb 7, 2017Life is weird and random, the smallest things sometimes having the biggest impacts, and Life Will See You Now celebrates that in glorious style.
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Feb 7, 2017Life is weird and random, the smallest things sometimes having the biggest impacts, and Life Will See You Now celebrates that in glorious style.
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Feb 6, 2017Luckily, the finished product is articulate and bubbling with energy and positivity--much like Lekman himself.
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UncutFeb 3, 2017Despite his melancholy rep, Lekman's rarely sounded sunnier. [Mar 2017, p.32]
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Feb 3, 2017Life Will See You Now won’t disappoint the devoted. Pop pleasures are myriad.
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Feb 17, 2017The result is engaging, if not terribly lasting.
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Feb 14, 2017There is a wide-eyed optimism pulsing through the heart of it which, twinned with Jens’ lovelorn, quirky poetry, is a sincere, open-hearted invitation. The least it deserves is the same uncynical embrace from the listener.
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Feb 3, 2017Life's not all strange and beautiful, but it's more strange and beautiful than not, and in Lekman's pool that truth overturns everything. And seeing him see what he sees--now that's an album. [Jan - Mar 2017, p.66
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Feb 17, 2017Life Will See You Now makes no secret about exposing its tender heart, but luckily it has enough substance to rescue it from a Lifetime movie level of sentimentality.
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Feb 17, 2017Life Will See You Now doesn’t quite hit the heights of 2007-era Lekman, but in his mid-thirties, Gothenburg’s favourite son remains a vital artist. May it not be another five years before he returns.
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Feb 16, 2017Although Lekman's voice sometimes sounds like Morrissey doing a Kermit the Frog impression, he revels in strong songwriting and brilliant hooks played on steel drums, funky horns and hip-hop bells.
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Feb 16, 2017A lot of the album feels inspired by the Ghostwriting project, and while he's definitely injected himself into the songs, it feels oddly detached and writerly, as if he's taking pains to create a buffer zone of distance between his real feelings and the listener.
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Feb 3, 2017It once again finds Lekman employing striking sensory imagery in his acutely detailed recollections about friends and lovers.
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Feb 13, 2017It has the feel of a transitional record; having proved to himself that it’s possible to pair up heartfelt songs with sometimes incongruous music, perhaps Lekman will hone this concept further in his future work.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 41
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Mixed: 4 out of 41
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Negative: 2 out of 41
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May 16, 2017