Appeared on Fri 01 May 09 @ The Black Box | Belfast (with special guests PETER BRODERICK + DON'T MOVE)
Part folkie, part indie-rocker, part comic book artist, how does indigenous New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis do it? After a 2008 spent almost entirely on the road, including support tours with some of the most respected artists around (Jarvis Cocker, The Cribs, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and The Mountain Goats to name but a few!), with artistic and literary projects all over the map (an illustrated rhyming history of Communism, lectures on the comic book Watchmen, blogs for the New York Times, even an illustrated biography of Barack Obama…), and with his recent album of anarcho-punk covers 12 Crass Songs still making waves (4 stars in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Mojo, Uncut and many others), Jeffrey has somehow managed to find the time to record his best album yet.
‘Em Are I by Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard is Jeff’s fifth full-length for Rough Trade, and represents the first time that all of the greatest elements of his previous recordings have formed a fully cohesive and amazing whole! With his comic/tragic lyrics straight from the heart, and guitar style ranging from finger-picked roots to outer-space swoops, Jeffrey Lewis has worked on and off in between tours to spin an 11-song production that seems to reflect a love of the last 40 years of popular music, all filtered through Jeff’s unmistakable idiosyncratic muse. Jeff’s usual band of drummer Dave Beauchamp and bassist/brother Jack Lewis are joined at various times on the new album by friends and acquaintances including French indie-heroes Herman Dune and J.Mascis from Dinosaur Jr.
with special guests PETER BRODERICK + DON'T MOVE
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