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Jens Lekman (born 1981) is a Swedish pop musician. He has released one album and several EPs since 2003. His music can be described as guitar based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, the lyrics are often witty, romantic and sad. His work is often compared to that by Stephin Merritt, Jonathan Richman, Morrissey and The Magnetic Fields.
After having recorded and released a lot of material privately 2000-2003 on CD-R under the moniker Rocky Dennis (from the movie Mask), his self-released 7" vinyl ep containing Maple Leaves caused a big hype in the spring and summer of 2003. This was mainly due to sound files circulating on file sharing networks - the EP was limited to only 250 copies. When the ..
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