Releases
Calendar
May 2009
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Further Complications
Jarvis Cocker
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'Em Are I
Jeffrey Lewis
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I Feel Cream
Peaches
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Primary Colours
The Horrors
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Actor
St. Vincent
April 2009
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Angela
Jarvis Cocker
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Velvet
The Big Pink
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Love Is The Way
Eddi Reader
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My Maudlin Career
Camera Obscura
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Lorraine, Lookout
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
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Love Is Overtaking Me [Record Store Day Exclusive]
Arthur Russell
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Dark Days/Light Years
Super Furry Animals
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Jewellery
Micachu
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Sun Gangs
The Veils
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Inside Your Guitar
It Hugs Back
'Em Are I by Jeffrey Lewis
Released: May 19 2009
‘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.
Mostly tracked on classic analogue tape at Brooklyn’s Emandee Studios with engineer and co-producer Mark Ospovat, Jeff’s usual band of drummer Dave Beauchamp and bassist/brother Jack Lewis are joined at various times by friends and acquaintances including French indie-heroes Herman Dune, American banjo troubadour Emily Lacy, and the album even features a lead guitar cameo from Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.
If 12 Crass Songs displayed Jeff’s growing talent as an imaginative studio producer when applied to covering other people’s songs, as opposed to his celebrated roots as a stripped-down lo-fi song- smith, ‘Em Are I is the perfect marriage of the two and as with 12 Crass Songs, the new album features another beautiful sleeve package, designed and illustrated by Jeffrey himself.
