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Taltus and The Voltage.

Character art by Mary Landro.

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“Except For The Fact That It Isn’t” by Jeffrey Lewis (2019)

The B-Movie of life, set to a stomping distortion pedal workout. With bass solo (and beatdown) from Mem Pahl: “It's a fairly listenable four-chord ditty with verses and choruses, but then there's also some ripped-up guitar devastation… it's kind of upbeat and jaunty but then it's got the most brutally sad line of the whole album… it’s mostly about what is undeniably good and real and insufficient.”

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Been listening to the Bad Wiring by Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage LP all day every day since it arrived on thursday.

Also been listening to the digital version since the album got released (I waited so long for this to arrive I couldn't help it), hands down I think this could be my album of 2019. The record is so wonderfully playful with its imagery and the lyric insert is out of order which really helps to symbolise the madness of the themes on the album. Plus, red. Just, RED.

The music itself is a menacingly competent blend of emotions which have an aura of stability with a madness lying behind it. It's clear Jeffrey is annoyed about something but it can't be defined as one singular problem (and so we have an album instead). Every song has a similar feel to it whilst each track also being uniquely mad in its' own way. Like most of his original work, it's full of existential sentiment and brooding with a humorous amount of nihilism to stop you from actually getting depressed. This, I think, is the most heavy handed he's got with it. He's also a lot more nostalgic in this album. There's a few songs with the theme of aging and getting old and remember how good it used to be. It's not overpowering, which is good, but it does leave the biggest impact out of all the themes he explores in this album.

I do know this probably won't be to everyone's taste but it's worth a listen even if you end up not liking it. Jeffrey Lewis is just really good at making simple techniques feel so empowering. It's a music that fills you up but not too much you resent it. It never overstays its welcome. And if you want to change the songs as to how you think it should've sounded, the lyric insert includes all the chord progressions for each song plus describing any instrument changes/unique sounds for each song as they appear in the track. It's great for musicians who want to experiment and play around with different arrangements (like me!).

It's just a wonderful album and I emplor y'all to listen cause I think this could be something pretty special.

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“LPs” by Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage (2019)

Incredibly thankful for the opportunity from Jeff Lewis to make a music video from his new album. There’s also some celebrity cameos in it!

From Jeffrey Lewis: “This video was filmed in NYC by Jak Kerley in February 2019, along with one other music video which will be coming soon! Ironically, of course, it happened to be the coldest, most freezing day of the entire winter when we had to film many of the outdoor scenes, like the Jeffrey/Mem/garbage-dumpster stuff. At least it was sunny. I really do have this feeling that CDs are about to come into style! In this song, my usual method is playing my usual acoustic guitar, and stomping on a distortion pedal at various times for that loud dynamic. This whole style was something that I learned from Mike Rechner, who I first became obsessed with 1998-1999. I had never seen somebody do that before, the acoustic guitar playing just a couple chords, with the distortion pedal brutally punctuating certain sections for maximum dramatic impact. It became a cornerstone of my idea of what a song is, and I use Mike’s style all the time, like in this LPs song. “So I started getting - (POW!) LPs, they only cost a little and these (POW!) - LPs, were all the ones I needed…”