Smooth 'collage'-music man; Jens Lekman mixes decades with vocals, amusing lyrics.(SHOW)(RIFFS)

Washington Times, The, March, 2008

Byline: Jenny Mayo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Musician Jens Lekman knows his way around a bingo parlor. Were he from America, this might be something of an oddity, but in his native Sweden, life is often filled with cards, chips and those five winning letters.

"Bingo is huge there," the 27-year-old artist says, "from TV shows where basically the whole nation plays on Sunday night to drive-in bingo where people sit in their cars and play, to bingo halls where all the older people in the cities go." Mr. Lekman says that although he's a little embarrassed about the ...