Jens Lekman making music more personal and intimate from Cincinnati

Jens Lekman is one of Sweden’s best-known musicians and a darling of the indie pop world, writes Stephen Heyman in The New York Times. He has three full-length albums to his name, including 2007’s Night Falls Over Kortedala, which made it onto several critics’ lists of the last decade’s best records.

Heyman runs a Q&A in the Times‘s International Arts section to explore Lekman’s recent push into more intimate and immediate ways of music-making and explains how he was in Cincinnati this fall working on a project called “Ghostwriting” in which he interviewed people about their lives and turned their stories into songs he later released for free on his website.

Lekman performed a few weeks ago at the Woodward Theater in a collaboration with MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra.

Read the full New York Times Q&A here.