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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 |   The Guardian

    The music still sits between frantic folk and chaotic Crazy Horse-influenced fuzz, but 'Em Are I is noticeably gloomier than its predecessors and evidently much inspired by recent events in his love life
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  2. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    Lewis is a sharp firsthand observer of what passes for urban bohemia, but one who still puts warts-and-all sincerity before hipster chic.
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  3. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Shaping up nicely as this generation's Jonathan Richman. 
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