TONIGHT: Jens Lekman/Taken By Trees @ Union Transfer

In the half decade since his previous album, Swedish softy Jens Lekman spent several years in Melbourne, Australia, where he engaged in his usual regimen of romance and heartbreak.

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TONIGHT: Jens Lekman/Taken By Trees @ Union Transfer

POSTED: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:22 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

Jens Lekman. Photography: Kristin Lidell (Fotograf Kristin Lidell Fotograf)

In the half decade since his previous album, Swedish softy Jens Lekman spent several years in Melbourne, Australia, where he engaged in his usual regimen of romance and heartbreak; to judge from the barely veiled poignancy that permeates his characteristically charming I Know What Love Isn’t (Secretly Canadian), it was mostly the latter. Meanwhile, his labelmate and fellow globetrotting Gothenberger (and former Concrete) Victoria Bergsman seems to have had a somewhat easier time of it elsewhere in the Pacific: To follow up her overlooked 2009 gem East of Eden, which she recorded in Pakistan, she teamed with Henning Fürst of Balearic electro-popsters The Tough Alliance and traveled to Hawaii, emerging with the suitably sunkissed, blissfully woozy and positively love-drunk Other Worlds.

Thu., Oct. 11, 9 p.m., $18-$20, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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