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CMU Approved
Approved: Jeffrey Lewis – Outta Town
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 3 September 2015
Jeffrey Lewis has announced that he will release a new album, titled ‘Manhattan’, on 30 Oct through Rough Trade Records. Backed by his band Los Bolts, the LP’s eleven songs were inspired, as perhaps the title suggests, by his hometown of New York and all that goes on within it.
The album contains songs with titles like ‘Scowling Crackhead Ian’ and ‘Sad Screaming Old Man’, but for the first track to be released he’s gone with something a bit more immediately accessible. ‘Outta Town’ shows off Lewis’s brilliant lyrical ability to take a simple thought and elevate it to a grand observation on life.
It’s about, he says, “how empty life feels when you are in a relationship and that person’s not there, because you don’t remember how to have a relationship with yourself, you broke up with yourself when you started dating the other person. You have to learn how to start dating yourself all over again”.
Listen to ‘Outta Town’ here:
