I just started a new remix and production project I'm calling Spoolwork, and Pitchfork had some nice things to say today about my remix of Jens Lekman's "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You." Here's a link to the original posting:

Pitchfork posting

And here's what they had to say:

Jens Lekman songs are often not just influenced by the music that inspires him, like the Rolling Stones borrowing Chuck Berry riffs, but actually built around samples from the stuff. So it's intriguing to imagine what a tune like, say, Oh You're So Silent Jens's "Black Cab" would sound like backed by something other than the harpsichord from the Left Banke's "I've Got Something on My Mind". Lekman's Secretly Canadian labelmate Dave Fischoff got the opportunity to do a similar alternate-universe take on Night Falls Over Kortedala's "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You", but without the benefit of knowing what the album version would ultimately sound like. Lekman gave Fischoff just the vocal track and left him to build the rest of the song structure and arrangement from there.

For the first remix under his new Spoolwork pseudonym, Fischoff gives "I'm Leaving You..." a dramatic, closing-credits feel. Gone are the tropics-tinged beats Lekman samples from fellow Swedes the Tough Alliance's "Take No Heroes", and the sped-up backing vocals; gone, too, are the chintzy keyboards and orchestral touches he puts above them. In a clever move, Fischoff's version starts with some decidedly un-Lekman-like distortion, but the most prominent differences at first come in the busier beats, bedroom-Spector grandeur, and chirping synths. Then there's the chorus, less a sigh of regret than a cinematic fare-thee-well, with a surging chord progression and ringing flourishes that may have a ghost of "Born to Run" in them. No way Lekman would ever sing about wanting to die in an "everlasting kiss," though.

-Posted by Marc Hogan on Mon: 01-21-08: 10:45 AM CST

And if you'd like to download a copy of the Jens remix, you can also grab it on my Spoolwork Myspace page:

Spoolwork Myspace page