Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts have re-released their Manhattan LP through Blang and it’s out now. We’ve been fans of genius songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey since 2001 when Jules saw him play at New York’s Sidewalk Cafe and Joe caught him a few months later upstairs at London’s Enterprise pub (three years before Jules and Joe met). His warm, wise and witty lyrics and lo-fi folk-punk sound is rooted in a New York lineage that runs from Harry Smith in the 50s through the early 60s Greenwich Village folk cafe eccentrics, Holy Modal Rounders, Fugs, Velvets, punk, CBGBs and more recent antifolk scene (Moldy Peaches, Lach, etc). Check Jeffrey’s “History Of Punk On The Lower East Side” low-budget “movie”.)
Manhattan, initially released on Rough Trade in 2015 and out of print for far too long is available from record shops on random COLOURED re-ground eco-vinyl (every LP a randomly different colour. Mostly greenish hues, but don’t ask us why).
And from the Blang Bandcamp shop on BLACK Bio Vinyl, a PVC compound produced using non-fossil fuel materials – it starts with plant based or recyclable oil feedstock (i.e. cooking oil). Standard PVC compound uses fossil fuel feedstock.
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“Manhattan could almost be a Lou Reed album scripted by Woody Allen.” LOUDER
“one of the most intelligent, funny and interesting American songwriters in any genre” KLOF MAG
“despite his bleak musings on life and existence in the Big Apple, there is a defiant sense of humour instilled within…. Jeffrey Lewis is slowly but surely on a trajectory to immortal cult-status” LINE OF BEST FIT
