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Em Are I

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard

Em Are I

Indie rock-cum-folk from the New Yorker, his fifth album and the first credited equally to his backing band

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
20/04/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    If perhaps before Lewis’s music had a tendency to be swamped by small-print, here the songs know when to step back, to give way to a catchy chorus or a hummable riff
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  2. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Songwriting advancements or not, Lewis’s talent for expanding the details of personal misfortune into genuinely absorbing commentary on the universal, ever done with a wry smile, will always be his trump card
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  3. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Endearing, beaten, helpless and hopeless enough to make you want to sweep Lewis up in your arms, give him a big hug and take him home. 'Em Are I is an abandoned puppy of an album that you can't help but take to heart
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

    Has stepped in to chronicle the detritus of the human condition for his amicable fifth full-length al
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