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Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But he'salso a wedding singer for a reason. Ever since his 2004song InchIf You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at YourWedding)Inch he has had a side gig fielding requests fromstrangers to sing at their weddings. For over twentyyears, he's had a particular vantage point from which tosee the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, heand novelist David Levithan co-conceived anovel-with-music, Songs from Other People's Weddings.Originally this album was meant to contain the songsfrom the weddings in the book, but as the novel cametogether, Lekman began to imagine what happenedbetween the book's chapters. The book and the albumeventually became intertwined but also found their ownpaths. The book remained the structure of the story, butthe album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Storiesfrom the songs made their way into the book and viceversa. The result is an exploration of what we sing aboutwhen we sing about love - euphoria, doubt, dislocation,tenderness, conflict, playfulness, gratitude, ingratitude,longing, belonging, questioning, answering. It's verymuch about a relationship and how it's reflected throughthe relationships and weddings of others, but most of allit's a lovesong to lovesongs. Album Tracks 1. The First Lovesong 2. A Tuxedo Sewn for Two 3. Candy from a Stranger 4. Two Little Pigs 5. Speak to Me in Music 6. With You I Can Hear My Own Voice 7. I Want to Want You Again 8. Got-Jfk 9. Wedding in Brooklyn 10. For Skye 11. Increasingly Obsolete 12. On a Pier, on the Hudson 13. Wedding in Leipzig 14. Lej-Got 15. You Have One New Message 16. Just for One Moment 17. The Last Lovesong
