Manhattan

Description

Jeffrey Lewiss 2015 masterpiece Manhattan in random-colour reground vinyl.

The best lyricist working in the US today. Jarvis Cocker

Manhattan is Jeffrey Lewiss seventh studio album for Rough Trade and his first since 2011s A Turn In The Dream-Songs. His band is called Los Bolts and includes his regular players Heather Wagner (drums) and bassist Caitlin Gray (Hooray For The Riff-Raff). The albums artwork features Jeffs illustrations throughout.

Manhattan was mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Phosphorescent, War On Drugs) and recorded by Brian Speaker.

The album is both named after and directly inspired by New York City but is no regionalised curio. Its the very specificity of the details Lewis uses to depict his characters and situations that make his songs so evocative and so emotionally rich. Lewis is both a lifelong resident and a detached observer of his hometown but ultimately its a simple treatment of human moments by one of our sharpest songwriting talents.

The track Outta Town is a song that Jeff describes as how empty life feels when you are in a relationship and that persons not there, because you dont 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.