Jens Lekman "Linden Trees Are Still In Blossom" Color:2xLP Crystal Clear The Mars Volta made music

The Mars Volta made music that fused the Latin sounds Rodríguez-López was raised on with the punk and underground noise he and Bixler-Zavala had immersed themselves in for years

soul and reggae

There’s also going to be a mammoth accompanying live set from Philadelphia’s Electric Factory

Lucky For You is a document of perseverance in the face of the big and the small stuff

Jens Lekman "Linden Trees Are Still In Blossom" Color:2xLP Crystal Clear The Mars Volta made musicCasting his mind back over twenty years to his first rudimentary experiments with sampling using his father's old cassette recorder, Jens Lekman recalls an instinct to create music that would set him far apart from his Swedish pop peers: "All my friends were playing in these bass guitar drum bands," he says. "I'm going to sound like Scott Walker. But I'm going to do it in my bedroom." Works of sweeping, maximalist, orchestral wonder sung in a