LetsSingIt the internet lyrics database
en
1
picture

"Oh You're So Silent Jens" album lyrics

4.0 / 5
Album updated, review now!
album info:
Verified yes
Discs1
GenrePop, Indie
Rank
Released2005-06-08
Record labelSecretly Canadian
Charts
AddedDecember 24th, 2006
Last updatedApril 30th, 2017
AboutOh You're So Silent Jens is a compilation album by Swedish indie pop musician Jens Lekman. It was first released on Service on 8 June 2005, and later re-released on 22 November 2005 on Secretly Canadian. The album is composed of previously released tracks taken from Maple Leaves (2003), Rocky Dennis in Heaven (2004), and Julie (2004), as well as "F-word" (2003) from the En Garde Fanzine and "The Wrong Hands" (2004) from the Accelerator Compilation.

The album cover was designed by the Swedish musician Rasmus Hägg, one half of the balearic duo Studio.

Oh You're So Silent Jens received widespread acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "generally favourable reviews".

Amy Phillips of Pitchfork Media gave the album a very positive review, stating, "Oh You're So Silent Jens, his new collection of previously released singles and B-sides, is a marvel of pure songcraft. Clichés unravel, traditional structures break down and build back up again, unpretentious witticisms sparkle. And then there are the sonics of the thing: lo-fi Phil Spector room dividers of sound, unexpected samples, and Lekman's rich, cavernous monotone."

Albums you may also like

Jens Lekman
Similar genre
Popular on LetsSingIt
New on LetsSingIt
show all Jens Lekman albums
show more albums with similar genre
show this week's top 1000 most popular albums
show all recently added albums

Contributors

leaderboard
activity

Comments (0)