After initially finding an audience through peer-to-peer file sharing sites, Lekman signed to Secretly Canadian Records in 2003, and went on to release a slew of cherished material, including three cult limited-edition EPs Maple Leaves, Rocky Dennis, and Julie later collected on the 2005 compilation album Oh Youre So Silent Jens. His DIY fantasias found their fullest and most celebrated form in 2007 on his second album proper, the exquisite Night Falls Over Kortedala Lekmans self-professed dream record. It went to number one in Sweden and was later hailed as one of the 200 best albums of the 2000s by Pitchfork, as well as one of the top 100 albums of the 21st century so far by The Guardian.

Now, like Oh Youre So Silent Jens, it no longer exists in its original form.

Oh Youre So Silent Jens enigmatically disappeared in 2011; Night Falls Over Kortedala followed suit in earl