TLOBF fav Jens Lekman has announced details of a new album which will be released on Secretly Canadian in the US on October 9th. Entitled Night Falls Over Kortedala, it will be preceded by the single Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo, previously reported here.
The Secretly Canadian website has a brief piece by Jens describing the new album and the mysterious city Kortedala of the title:
“What a depressing suburban hell this place is. Everyone goes to bed at nine, after that you can’t see one single window lit up. You can walk for hours without meeting one single person. I used to like that, ’cause it meant I could go for endless walks and pretend the world was my own and I was the only one in it. But after a while I found out the hard way that there were others who couldn’t sleep at night. “On my way into town I got beat up and mugged one night three years ago. Since then it’s happened so many times I’ve lost count. It’s never been that bad, I’ve never ended up in the hospital or lost anything too valuable really. But it’s the atmosphere and the small incidents that scare me. The guys who yell ’faggot’ at me when I pass their balcony, the nazis hanging out in a nearby open garage, the old men with their binoculars who sit in their windows looking for anything suspicious to report, the dead cats that show up on the lawn outside my kitchen, the knock on my window at four a.m. this summer followed by a whispered ’when he opens you hit him in the head,’ the neighbour I constantly find passed out in the staircase, the flicker of a million tv screens against the livingroom walls, the smoke from a million chainsmoking moms, the fact that the guy who lived in my apartment before me lay dead in the bathtub for three months before they found him.
“In Kortedala everyone’s minding their own business. And I’m slowly turning into one of them so as soon as I’ve finished this record I will get the hell out of here.”
No details of a UK release yet. However, Rough Trade will be releasing the Four Songs by Arthur Russell EP, featuring Arthur Russell covers by Lekman, Vera November (Verity Sussman of Electrelane), Taken by Trees (Victoria Bergsman) and Joel Gibb.
Links
Jens Lekman [official site] [myspace]
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July 25th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I’m soooooo excited about this. I think I just wet myself a little.