Restless Leg Syndrome

Everyone’s favorite off-kilter Swede has recently dropped a new song! Jens Lekman has returned with promise of a new album and a track called “The End of the World is Bigger Than Love.” Now if there’s anything us folks over at Restless Leg Syndrome follow closer than music, it’s the end of the world. (Not in a grab-your-homeboys-and-hot-pockets-and-head-to-the-bomb-shelter kind of way but purely sociologically, I’d like to believe.) But really, we are so down with the rapture. And so is Jens.

The familiar bouncy melody and half-past-deadpan layered singing reminds us that the end of the world is really big. Bigger than your broken heart, bigger than your problems, bigger than spiders and the stock market and the Flatbush Avenue Target and all sorts of other things previously thought to be of consequential size.

Lekman says, “It’s a song of hope. When love turns it’s back on you it’s nice to know there’s a world out there that doesn’t give a shit about your problems. That forces you to keep your head held high and move on. A world that is fragile and beautiful. Maybe it can sound cold to some of you, but let me make it clear that I believe in love, I just get so wrapped up in it sometimes that I need to put it into proportion. It’s something you have to do a lot when you’re Jens Lekman.”

True story! Highly anticipating the new album. We’ll be sure to keep it on high rotation…down in the bomb shelter.

Jens Lekman – The End of the World is Bigger Than Love

From his last album:
Jens Lekman – The Opposite of Hallelujah
Jens Lekman – Postcard to Nina (Jens wrote a song about me and by me I mean a German lesbian who shares my name, but still!)