''Life Will See You Now'' is the fourth studio album by Swedish indie pop musician Jens Lekman. The album was released on 17 February 2017 through Secretly Canadian. The album's title and release date were first announced on 4 January 2017, accompanied by the release of its lead single, "What's That Perfume That You Wear?" A second song, "Evening Prayer", was released on 7 February.

Background

Lekman had finished a follow-up record to his third studio album ''

I Know What Love Isn't ''I Know What Love Isn't'' is the third studio album by Swedish indie pop musician Jens Lekman. The album was released in Europe on September 3, 2012 by Service (record label), Service and in the United States on September 4, 2012 by Secretly Cana ...

'' in 2014, but scrapped it after he felt that the finished product "sounded like ehad given up". The following year, he launched a project he entitled ''Postcards'', which saw him writing and releasing a new song each week of the year, and his more freeform approach to songwriting on ''Postcards'' carried over to the making of
Life Will See You Now
'. In an interview about the making of the album, Lekman said: "I wanted it to be a pop record... ''I Know What Love Isn't'' was almost an extreme narrowing of the palette I was using, but for this one I wanted it to be more colorful. I wanted there to be more instruments. I was learning about drum machines and electronic instruments when I was making this."

Critical reception

''Life Will See You Now'' received highly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

Accolades

Track listing

Sample credits *"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" contains samples of "The Path", written by Ralph MacDonald, William Eaton, and William Salter, and performed by Ralph MacDonald. *"How We Met, The Long Version" contains samples of "Don't Stop Dancin'", written by Alvin Stewart and performed by Jackie Stoudemire.

Personnel

Credits for ''Life Will See You Now'' adapted from liner notes. *Jens Lekman – vocals,

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, piano, writing, production Additional personnel *Madelene Birgenius – piano * Matt Colton – mastering *Henri Davies – recording (assistant) *Alex de Little – trombone *Alice Dixon –

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s *Anna Eichholz – strings *Linnéa Eketrä –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

*Josa Gerhard – strings *Ellika Henrikson – photography *Ellen Hjalmarsson – strings *Emelie Jonazon – saxophone *Paul B. Keeves – bass * Loulou Lamotte – vocals, background vocals *Kristin Lidell – trumpet * Sasse Lindblad – mixing *Malin Nordström – composition *Jonas Odhner – engineering (horns) * Ewan Pearson – engineering, handclapping, mixing, production, recording, programming, Solina *Dominik Petzold – piano *Guy Sternberg – engineering, recording *Jackie Stoudemire – sampling * Tracey Thorn – composition, vocals * Nathaniel David Utesch – layout * – artwork *Nicolai Ziel – drums, percussion

Charts

References

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