Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But he’s also a wedding singer for a reason. Ever 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. For over twenty years, he’s had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other People’s Weddings. Originally 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. The book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths. The book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Stories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa. The 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. It’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.

A1. The First Lovesong
A2. A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
A3. Candy From a Stranger
A4. Two Little Pigs
A5. Speak To Me In Music
B6. With You I Can Hear My Own Voice
B7. I Want To Want You Again
B8. GOT-JFK
B9. Wedding In Brooklyn
B10. For Skye
C11. Increasingly Obsolete
C12. On A Pier, On The Hudson
C13. Wedding In Leipzig
D14. LEJ-GOT
D15. You Have One New Message
D16. Just For One Moment
D17. The Last Lovesong