Killing their own creations

Before Jens Lekman, had another artist ever before committed such an act of commercial and artistic self-sacrifice? Turns out that, actually, several had

Over the last number of months, I’ve been lucky to get the chance to write, produce and present a podcast for American independent record label Secretly Canadian, all about the life and music of one of my favourite artists, Swedish indie-pop singer-songwriter Jens Lekman. Specifically, a two-part miniseries – a highly unusual project that Lekman undertook over the last few years, to basically remake two of his, which contains some of his early breakout singles, and his most critically and commercially successful release 2007’s , which was hailed by and as one of the best albums of its era.