Jens Lekman Shares 10-Minute New Tune “Wedding ceremony in Leipzig”
Songs For Different Individuals’s Weddings Due Out September 12 by way of Secretly Canadian
Aug 08, 2025
Images by Ellika Henrikson
Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman is releasing a brand new album, Songs For Different Individuals’s Weddings, on September 12 by way of Secretly Canadian, and now he has shared its newest single, the 10-minute “Wedding ceremony in Leipzig.” Hear under, adopted by Lekman’s upcoming tour dates.
Songs For Different Individuals’s Weddings is impressed by Lekman’s time performing on the weddings of followers. It’s accompanied by a guide of the identical title written by Lekman and David Levithan. The guide got here out earlier this week by way of ABRAMS.
“‘Wedding ceremony in Leipzig’ is a track that by no means needed to finish, it simply stored writing itself,” explains Lekman in a press launch. “I feel it was 20 minutes lengthy at one level earlier than I began reducing it down. I feel I used to be subconsciously impressed by Lou Reed’s ‘Road Trouble’ once I was writing it. Within the track we discover J, the marriage singer in our story, in a moderately determined and weak state as he makes his option to a marriage gig in Leipzig. There he’s positioned on the dreaded singles desk, consisting of a bunch of loners and weirdos. And thru tales advised on the desk, he begins to ponder what it means to be alone.”
Lekman’s 2004 track “If You Ever Want a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding ceremony)” impressed followers to achieve out to Lekman to sing at their weddings, one thing the musician took to as a paid aspect gig at a time when the monetary outlook for many musicians is lower than sure.
The press launch explains the idea of the novel and album in nice element: “Songs For Different Individuals’s Weddings is a piece of fiction about J, an unlucky-in-love musician who moonlights as a marriage singer. J gathers with {couples} earlier than their huge day to study extra in regards to the intimate, unusual issues that introduced them collectively, with a view to write an authentic track to carry out for them at their marriage ceremony. However regardless of J’s penchant for locating the right phrases for others, he can’t appear to do the identical for his personal love together with his girlfriend, V. Narratively, Songs For Different Individuals’s Weddings follows J and V’s relationship, altering musically because the couple navigates the ups and downs of affection–with every new marriage ceremony offering its personal sonic background.”
Coauthor Levithan provides: “If Jens and I’ve achieved our jobs, the novel and the album inform either side of J and V’s story—and the stress comes from how these sides match collectively.”
The album’s lead single “Sweet From a Stranger” was one in all our Songs of the Week.
Learn our 2017 interview with Lekman on Life Will See You Now.
Jens Lekman Tour Dates:
11/08 – Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdam Bar & Corridor
11/09 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Corridor
11/10 – Toronto, ON – The Nice Corridor
11/12 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair
11/13 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
11/14 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
11/16 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Corridor of Williamsburg
11/17 – Washington, D.C. – Union Stage
11/19 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Corridor
11/21 – Atlanta, GA – The EARL
11/22 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In
11/24 – Dallas, TX – Deep Ellum
11/25 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
11/28 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
11/29 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
11/30 – San Francisco, CA – The Impartial
12/02 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
12/03 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
