From the bittersweet life story of "Back When I Was 4" to the acoustic thrash of "No LSD Tonight," Lewis traffics in epic streams of consciousness that are sad, hilarious, touching, and disturbing. On this, his sophomore full-length, Lewis broadens his sound, adding odd moments of viola and found recordings to his usual fingerpicking; but one listen to a track like "Don't Let the Record Company Take You Out to Lunch" proves that Lewis' music is as sparklingly lo-fi and homey as ever. A member of the same N...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Vinyl contains lead guitar cameo from J Mascis and includes an MP3 coupon! Part folkie, part indie-rocker, part comic book artist - how does indigenous New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis do it? After a 2008 spent mostly on the road, including support tours with Jarvis Cocker, The Cribs, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, The Mountain Goats, and more, with artistic and literary projects all over the map, and with his recent album of anarcho-punk covers 12 Crass Songs still making waves, Jeffrey has somehow ...   [ read more ]

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"The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites isn't a great departure from New York's the Moldy Peaches -- Jeffrey Lewis had once provided illustrations for the band -- but it does thrive on its own range of isolated humor and touchingly lonely autobiographical observation. Lewis' subjects aren't as childish as some might expect: Amidst the comic-strip stories of golden arms and zombie murder, a theme of grief, frustration, and social inadequacy reappears. Keeping the music faded and introspe...   [ read more ]

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