Oh You're So Silent Jens - Jens Lekman
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Universal acclaim- based on 29 Ratings

  • Summary: This CD collects tracks from the Swedish artist's most recent EPs and singles.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. [He] peppers his dour dedications with a deadpan, Morrissey-esque wit. [9 Dec 2005, p.89]
  2. The result is in some ways immensely pleasing (at its best the quality here is easily the equal of the songs from the proper album), but at seventeen songs and a full hour in length Oh You're So Silent Jens suffers a bit, predictably, from too much of a good thing.
  3. There is just something so appealing about such guileless, honest music, music that sounds like it was easily made, and that makes it look so easy to do.
  4. Lekman is an intriguing bedsit poet whose whispered ramblings can sometimes melt the heart. [Mar 2006, p.108]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Negative: 4 out of 23
  1. AndrewM
    10
    love it
  2. StevenL
    8
    A very good listen.
  3. kent
    5
    The humor is so intermittent, and delivered at such strange angles, that one soon stops caring about the sad clown whence it issues. Potential sincerity is rendered suspect by a point of view that isn't so much a delicate balance between gentle irony and modern malaise as it is uncommitted middle class musings -- a hedged bet with no compelling stakes. He ho-hums about his status as a persona non grata amongst even his friends, yet revels in the sympathetic self-characterization and detached omniscience such exile affords. This may be heart-felt, but it never really transcends its own sodden chambers. Indeed, at the level of production, it sounds as though someone may have spilt a beer all over the master tapes. I would imagine his next album will be a lot tighter, brighter and . . . better. Expand
  4. TomJ
    3
    reverb does not make you a good songwriter. please stop wasting my time with yawn-inducing indie pop. and what the hell is with that song with all the people talking in the background? Expand

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