Twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Jens Lekman spikes Seventies-AM-radio-inspired pop with big-band fanfare. The Swedish Lekman croons in a Morrissey-esque baritone, but the ornate string-and-horn arrangments on his October 9th album Night Falls Over Kortedala are pure Barry Manilow (in a good way). Click above to watch the video for the album’s tropicália-tinged “Sipping on the Sweet Nectar,” and check out Lekman in the current issue of Rolling Stone’s On the Edge column.


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