Jens Lekman - Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom - Baby PinkCasting his mind back over twenty years to his first rudimentary experiments with sampling using his father's old cassette recorder, Jens Lekman recalls an instinct to create music that would set him far apart from his Swedish pop peers: "All my friends were playing in these bass guitar drum bands," he says. "I'm going to sound like Scott Walker. But I'm going to do it in my bedroom." Works of sweeping, maximalist, orchestral wonder sung in a

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More ballads are provided by Joe Simon

A native of Bohemia

When he finds himself in a cold jail cell after punching a pastor out of frustration with a seemingly absent God

Unafraid to shift pace within songs

echoing 70s Japanese ambienteers Hiroshi Yoshimura and Ken Ishii

Here are a few highlights from this great release

Das Stadtchen Drumherum

followed with beats from a single push button sampler and 4-track

the EP will be out via Riot Style records

winning the annual steelpan competition 8 times since 2004

excreting musical venom within a framework of dark