"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" Released: 4 January 2017 (2017-1-4)
"Evening Prayer" Released: 7 February 2017 (2017-2-7)
Life Will See You Now is the fourth studio album by Swedishindie pop musicianJens Lekman. The album was released on 17 February 2017 throughSecretly Canadian.
The album's title and release date were first announced on 4 January 2017, accompanied by the release of its lead single, "What's That Perfume That You Wear?"[1][2] A second song, "Evening Prayer", was released on 7 February.[3]
Lekman had finished a follow-up record to his third studio albumI Know What Love Isn't in 2014, but scrapped it after he felt that the finished product "sounded like [he] had given up".[4] The following year, he launched a project he entitledPostcards, which saw him writing and releasing a new song each week of the year, and his more freeform approach to songwriting onPostcards carried over to the making ofLife Will See You Now.[4] In an interview about the making of the album, Lekman said: "I wanted it to be a pop record...I Know What Love Isn't was almost an extreme narrowing of the palette I was using, but for this one I wanted it to be more colorful. I wanted there to be more instruments. I was learning about drum machines and electronic instruments when I was making this."[4]
Life Will See You Now received highly positive reviews from music critics. AtMetacritic, which assigns anormalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received anaverage score of 83, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[6]
"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" contains samples of "The Path", written byRalph MacDonald, William Eaton, and William Salter, and performed by Ralph MacDonald.
"How We Met, The Long Version" contains samples of "Don't Stop Dancin'", written by Alvin Stewart and performed by Jackie Stoudemire.