It seems like only yesterday that I was gushing about Jens Lekman playing in Seattle. [mb] In fact, nearly a third of a year has passed since he and a troupe of white-clad backing band members charmed Seattle senseless at Nectar. Like Michaelangelo Matos [stranger], I can see how easy it would be to simply focus on the tremendously inventive sampling and arrangements on Night Falls Over Kortedala, but that’s only the better half of what made it my favorite album of 2007. It’s a testament to Lekman’s writing that the sincere, buoyant, funny, and just-the-right side of clever nearly outshine everything else. When he says things like “but the ocean made me feel stupid” you know exactly what he means. $12, 8pm (remarkably not yet sold out!), with honeydrips, marla hansen. [neumos]