Video: Jens Lekman: "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar"
Be careful up there, Jens Lekman. The video for the Swedish crooner's "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar", from Best New Music'd new album Night Falls Over Kortedala, starts with Lekman gazing agape at a beautiful natural landscape. But he spends most of the clip in the air in a little red-and-white propeller plane, the sun glinting off the rooftops below. As the song's orchestral "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" sample crests, our lone pilot lip-syncs: "These are the good times that you'll miss/ When you're sipping on the sweet nectar of your memories." At the end of the flight, we find out Lekman excels not only at charming, kitchen-sink pop, but also at skywriting. "Yours truly, Jens Lekman," his vapor trail reads, just like the closing words of Kortedala's "Postcard to Nina".
[from Night Falls Over Kortedala; out now in Scandinavia on Service and 10/09/07 on Secretly Canadian in America]