Across three studio albums, the Swedish singer/songwriter and musician has proven not only his flair for telling very personal stories with a sharp self-awareness, but also his skill for balancing depth of emotional expression with droll and often self-deprecating detail. It’s a winning pop combination.

His fourth, Life Will See You Now is a typical Lekman album in several ways: sly humour is key to its heartfelt nature; it inverts pop’s writing norm by making songs with sad concerns sound happy and songs with a happy subject sound sad; and it plays with notions of identity and the self.

“What’s That Perfume That You Wear?”, the lead single off Jens Lekman’s brand new album has seen airplay support across the alternative radio station charts – also picking up spot plays on Radio NZ National’s popular Music 101 show. Seeing support from blogs such as UnderTheRadar here and press including Otago Daily Times and Stack Magazine, Lekman has a good presence within the indie scene here.