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Jeffrey Lewis Covers CRASS 08 Nov 2007
In January of 2008 Rough Trade Records will release Jeffrey Lewis' fourth album, 12 Crass Songs. The album is a collection of songs by the legendary anarchist punk band Crass, reworked by Jeffrey into glorious folk, rock, psychedelic, orchestral and electronica productions which dazzle the ear while losing none of the political power of the originals.
Lewis was raised on New York City's Lower East Side and is a maker of comic books, tragi-comic folk narratives, and lysergic garage rock. For the recording of 12 Crass Songs Lewis was joined by Helen Schreiner on back up vocals. Playing live with his brother Jack on bass, David Beauchamp on drums, The Jeffrey Lewis Band mixes 60s acoustic psychedelia like Pearls Before Swine with the experimental art-punk of the Fall and the urban lyricism of Lou Reed, sounding a bit like if Woody Guthrie fronted Sonic Youth.
12 Crass Songs follows in the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Jeffrey & Jack Lewis: City & Eastern Songs, which was produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Butthole Surfers, Low, Daniel Johnston, etc) and was selected as one of 2006's best albums in Time Out NY, the Boston Globe, CMJ Monthly and elsewhere. Jeffrey's most recent comic book series Fuff is currently up to issue five.
Jeffrey Lewis has toured the US, UK and Europe and his live shows incorporate "low budget videos," Jeff's large illustrations displayed to accompany certain songs.