Jack & Jeffrey Lewis - City & Eastern Songs

On City & Eastern Songs, Anti-folker and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis teams up with his brother Jack for a record that is more loud and aggressive. This album seems to be about conjunctions. The ampersand that joins Jack and Jeffrey is not only parallel to the ampersand joining city and eastern song, but the one that combines styles on this record. The acoustic stream of consciousness tunes that Lewis is known for are interrupted by shorter, faster, louder garage rock nuggets. From Mountain Goats style acoustic folk (2, 5, 8), to Sonic Youth influenced rockers (9) this album is more dynamic than previous records and by far, better.