Life Will See You Now

Jens Lekman (Secretly Canadian)

Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman has a most individualistic take on the mundanities of life. He can and does make a walk to the coffee house sound like a revelatory adventure. My jaw dropped to such a degree listening to the lyrics of Evening Prayer that I expected each song that followed it to be catalogues of the unsayable being said. Sounding like Noah and the Whale via Rufus Wainwright, it’s a gem of an album that will beguile, unsettle and ultimately satisfy.