| NYC's Lewis is a maker of comic books, tragic-comic folk narratives, and lysergic garage rock. His fourth album is a collection of songs by the legendary anarchist punk band Crass, reworked into glorious folk, rock, psychedelic, orchestral, and electronica productions which dazzle the ear while losing none of the political power of the originals. It follows in the footsteps of his critically acclaimed release, "Jeffrey & Jack Lewis: City & Eastern Songs", which was selected as one of 2006's best albums in Time Out NY, The Boston Globe, and CMJ Monthly. "...(on '12 Crass Songs' he) magically makes the anarcho-rockers' anti-establishment savagery his own, by wrapping their barbed sentiments in his trademark mottled tea-towel warmth, autumnal aura, and breathless, barren drawl" - NME. |
