• Jens Lekman - Oh, You're So Silent Jens

  • 1 At the Dept. of Forgotten Songs
    2 Maple Leaves
    3 Sky Phenomenon
    4 Pocketful of Money
    5 Black Cab
    6 Someone to Share My Life With
    7 Rocky Dennis' Farewell Song
    8 Rocky Dennis in Heaven
    9 Jens Lekman's Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis
    10 Julie
    11 I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration
    12 A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
    13 A Man Walks into a Bar
    14 Another Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
    15 F-Word
    16 The Wrong Hands
    17 Maple Leaves 7”-version
  • Jens’ second album collects his three first Ep:s: The classic "Maple Leaves Ep", the limited edition "Rocky Dennis in Heaven Ep", "Julie Ep" plus a couple of new tracks.

    When the time came to give this record a title, Jens had disappeared. Ola at Service did not hear from him before deadline, so he named it ”Oh, You’re So Silent Jens”. It’s of course a lyric quote from Black Cab, but also a message to Jens in absentia.

    Rasmus’ artwork is a genius design solution. It may take some time to realise that the mountainous landscape actually represents the three Ep:s that the album compiles.

    The photo in the booklet is probably from the unauthorised show Jens played at the Emmaboda camping and that was bootlegged (you can see a tape recorder in the picture), leeked onto the internet, and then downloaded and sampled by Jens for ”Hammer Hill” on this very album.

    So yes a lot of self-referencing hidden on this one.
  • ARTWORK: Rasmus Hägg
    RECORDED BY: Jens Lekman

  • SERV020 2005