July 17 street date. After completing his previous projects "Postcards" and "Ghostwriting", Jens Lekman came up with a new idea. He asked fellow Swedish songwriter Annika Norlin (Hello Saferide, Säkert!) to join him. The idea was that throughout the year of 2018, the two of them would correspond through music. Each month, one of them would write a song and the next month, the other one would reply. The rules were simple - one letter each month throughout the year - in total, six songs for Jens and six for Annika. Only one instrument could be used for each song. This was TO help them focus on the songs/letters instead of the production. "Correspondence" gave Jens and Annika an outlet for more spontaneous ideas, and they decided to stay under the radar by only releasing the songs on the "Correspondence" website, and a Spotify playlist. Most of the time they forgot that anyone else could hear the songs, and they turned out very personal. As the project came to an end, Jens and Annika listened through the songs and felt pleased with the results. An epistolary novel in the form of twelve folk songs. Jens wrote string arrangements for half of the songs and brought in violinist Ellen Hjalmarsson and cellist Petra Lundin. For the first time since the digital release, their correspondence will be released on vinyl.
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