{"product_id":"jens-lekman-songs-for-other-peoples-weddings","title":"Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People's Weddings","description":"\u003cp\u003e2LP - Standard Limited Double Opaque Yellow Vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eThe first new music from Jens Lekman since 2017’s Life Will See You Now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer.\u003cbr\u003eBut he’s also a wedding singer for a reason.\u003cbr\u003eEver 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.\u003cbr\u003eFor over twenty years, he’s had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives.\u003cbr\u003eIn 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other People’s Weddings.\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths.\u003cbr\u003eThe book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes.\u003cbr\u003eStories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eIt’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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY CANADIAN","offers":[{"title":"Opaque Yellow Vinyl","offer_id":53206466560327,"sku":"TRI-64844","price":42.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206467674439,"sku":"TRI-64845","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/5c44c26422cbef1fecaa2068752469ed_2eeb9664-bd21-41b7-a601-8152b8806929.jpg?v=1769371690","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/jens-lekman-songs-for-other-peoples-weddings","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}