Album Review: Jeffrey Lewis - 'A Turn In The Dream-Songs'

Jeffrey Lewis - 'A Turn In The Dream-Songs'

If our ability to repeatedly make the same mistakes is part of what makes us human, then Jeffrey Lewis makes the rest of us look like robots. The anti-folk pioneer’s sixth album for Rough Trade is a familiar comedy of errors, full of dusky...

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Album review: Jeffrey Lewis and The Junkyard

Album review: Jeffrey Lewis and The Junkyard

What with New York’s most idiosyncratic neurotic Woody Allen upping sticks to Europe for his past few films, Manhattan musician Jeffrey Lewis has stepped in to chronicle the detritus of the human condition for his amicable fifth full-length...

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Jeffrey Lewis: '12 Crass Songs'

Jeffrey Lewis: '12 Crass Songs'

Comic book creator, travelling troubadour, painter/decorator (probably) and now musical magpie. New York folkbeat operator Jeffrey Lewis’ talents appear without end. He’s full of unlikely turns and on this, his fourth album, he covers 12 songs...

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Jeffrey Lewis : The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favourites

Jeffrey Lewis : The Last Time I Did Acid I Went...

Jeffrey Lewis, a New Yorker, is tied to the Moldy Peaches and the folk punk movement. He also draws Robert Crumb-style cartoons laconically charting the pitfalls that blight his every waking hour. His album has the sort of kooky indie title...

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Lewis, Jeffrey : The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song

Lewis, Jeffrey : The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song

Alongside The Moldy Peaches, Jeffrey Lewis is part of the New York's 'anti-folk' scene and this single is oral history in every way. Recorded on two chords so lo-fi you can hear passing traffic, Lewis tells a story of walking up 23rd Street past...

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