Lekman, Jens - Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom (Baby Pink Coloured Vinyl)

Jens Lekman - Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom (Baby Pink Coloured Vinyl)

On The Cherry Trees, two of Lekman’s best-loved early breakout singles are completely reimagined – ‘Maple Leaves’ as a tender ballad burnished with warm strings; tragi-comic illegal taxi ride to oblivion ‘Black Cab’ in two different versions, a handsome full band pop song and a gentle acoustic lullaby. The Linden Trees repackages all the true-life tales, magic, and mystery of Night Falls for a new age, yet in wholly familiar form, from the joyous ‘The Opposite of Hallelujah’ to hilariously uplifting missive ‘A Postcard to Nina’ and open-hearted love-song ‘Your Arms Around Me’.

Taken together, the new albums form a sort of belated farewell to Lekman’s formative days as a bedroom Scott Walker, panning for sample gold in stacks of vintage vinyl. Albeit not a farewell to the original albums themselves, which will live on in fans’ record collections, and perhaps illicit corners of the internet. Spread to the wind.

“I feel like these new records are like portals that can lead you to the old records if you want,” Lekman reflects. “I think that they can lead you to another time and a place, where you could work with music in a different way.”

Tracklisting:

1. November 27, 2002
2. At the Dept. of Forgotten Songs
3. Maple Leaves
4. Sky Phenomenon
5. Pocketful of Money
6. Black Cab
7. Someone to Share My Life with
8. December 19, 2002
9. Rocky Dennis' Farewell Song to the Blind Girl
10. Rocky Dennis in Heaven
11. Jens Lekman's Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis
12. April 23, 2003
13. I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration
14. A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
15. A Man Walks Into a Bar
16. Another Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
17. F-Word
18. The Wrong Hands
19. June 1, 2003
20. Eureka
21. The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom
22. Black Cab (Acoustic)