Songs for Other People's Weddings

by Jens Lekman

Songs for Other People's Weddings cover art

'Songs for Other People's Weddings' is a sprawling narrative concept album that uses Jens Lekman's experiences as a wedding singer to frame a story about a long-distance relationship. The record's eighty-minute runtime showcases a wide array of genres, moving between orchestral pop, jaunty ballads, and danceable electro-funk, reflecting the varied musical moods of wedding ceremonies. Lekman’s witty, story-driven songwriting is matched with a clean, polished production that some critics noted for its theatrical sense of artifice.

Genres

  • Indie Pop
  • Chamber Pop

Tracklist

  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