Songs for Other People’s Weddings

by Jens Lekman

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eurodingo I really want to like this but the awkward phrasing and try-hard silliness hasn’t made it an album I feel like listening to very much.

Mailman Dripping with personality and emotion, Jens delivered a master class of musical storytelling on this one Favorite track: Wedding in Leipzig.

stephanhoertmusik I lived in Leipzig for a while and I like the city of Leipzig and their people Favorite track: Wedding in Leipzig.

anch_io Well... this is peak Jens. Older, wiser, but still fun. Favorite track: Wedding in Leipzig.

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1.	The First Lovesong 04:04	buy track
2.	A Tuxedo Sewn For Two 05:00	buy track
3.	Candy From a Stranger 03:45	buy track
4.	Two Little Pigs 04:06	buy track
5.	Speak To Me In Music 05:51	buy track
6.	With You I Can Hear My Own Voice 04:10	buy track
7.	I Want To Want You Again 05:12	buy track
8.	GOT-JFK 03:48	buy track
9.	Wedding in Brooklyn 03:49	buy track
10.	For Skye 04:26	buy track
11.	Increasingly Obsolete 04:45	buy track
12.	On a Pier, On the Hudson 04:33	buy track
13.	Wedding in Leipzig 10:33	buy track
14.	LEJ-GOT 01:36	buy track
15.	You Have One New Message 04:11	buy track
16.	Just For One Moment 05:32	buy track
17.	The Last Lovesong 04:46	buy track

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Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But he’s also a wedding singer for a reason. Ever since his 2004 song “If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding)” he has had a side gig fielding requests from strangers to sing at their weddings. For over twenty years, he’s had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other People’s Weddings. Originally this album was meant to contain the songs from the weddings in the book, but as the novel came together, Lekman began to imagine what happened between the book’s chapters. The book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths. The book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Stories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa. The result is an exploration of what we sing about when we sing about love -- euphoria, doubt, dislocation, tenderness, conflict, playfulness, gratitude, ingratitude, longing, belonging, questioning, answering. It’s very much about a relationship and how it’s reflected through the relationships and weddings of others, but most of all it’s a lovesong to lovesongs.

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released September 12, 2025

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Jens Lekman Sweden

Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman has spent nearly two decades crafting cleverly written guitar-pop. An incisive observer, Lekman sorts through existential dread with earnestness and whimsy. From 2007’s sophomore breakthrough ‘Night Falls Over Kortedala,’ to 2015’s 52-song ‘Postcards’ project, to 2017’s ‘Life Will See You Now,’ Lekman is singular in dissecting the subtleties of heartache. ... more

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