pop*eye...Parker Lewis

“ PARKER LEWIS MAKES MUSIC FOR THE SUMMER.
IT'S MOSTLY NAIVE AND INNOCENT STUFF,
BUT IT'S GOT A FEELING OF WONDERMENT ABOUT IT
EVEN THOUGH THE BACKING MUSIC IS FULL OF
STRAIGHTFORWARD BEATS,
SIMPLE SYNTHS AND SAMPLE. ”

-the portastylistic

Parker Lewis-Parker Lewis (2008)

Don't pass this album up!!!

"Oh dear Mr. Taxidriver, won't you please turn arooound? Oh dear Mr. Taxidriver won't you please slow dooown? Oh please, Mr. Taxidriver don't drive me out of this tooown!" On Cezanne, the fourth track of the self-titled debut album of the charming Swedish pop artisan Parker Lewis on the tiny Swedish netlabel Mad For It, he sings a metaphor for what the listener is thinking by the end of the album. Readers who've been reading the blog for a time and those with a good memory already knows that Parker Lewis is a favourite of The Lemur Blog and there was never any doubt that whatever he would let out through my speakers, it would become highly regarded in my domains. There is no reason to further reason to delay an exclamation of joy over this album!

Parker Lewis is perhaps more known to some as Alvy Singer, an alias under which he performs dancier indie-disco stuff equally catchy and sweet. But I am most assured that his debut album will change that. He is as lovely and charming as ever when he once again proves that he with seemingly no exertion can mobilize a handful of songs so perfectly crafted that you start to wonder wether if he is from this planet or not. The album contains only one song which we can recognize from his previous releases: Hjältar, here named Heroes and in a shorter edit.

Heroes starts off like a soft-funky sweetly melodic 90s pop trifle. But Parker's utterly Swedish indie pop sensibilities seems likely to be able to save any sinking ship a musician can break down. Alongside the likes of Swedish fellow pop patriots The Tough Alliance, Kalle J, Jens Lekman and why not Studio, Parker also proves what can't be denied anymore. I'm talking about the sound of Swedish indie pop music that is to pop what France and its French touch was to house music in the late 90s.

Parker Lewis goes from strength to strength and nothing should be able to stop this greatly talented and enormously gifted producer in his way to the history books of Swedish musical expertise and grandeur. This album is the most elegant and romantic Swedish pop music record since Night Falls Over Kortedala or A New Chance. Oh please, Mr. Music Producer don't stop playing nooow!

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All about
Parker Lewis

Parker Lewis is a Swedish pop artist who has been traveling outside his home country for some time now, now holing up in New York City for a few months. He just released Written & Directed By Parker Lewis on Cloudberry Records. A wonderful melding of that sentimental, heart-warming, utterly sincere Swedish pop aesthetic and this old-fashioned folksy rock style. It’s like Jens Lekman mixed with the eccentricity of Wayne Coyne or Peter Bjorn & John song recorded by the Beach Boys circa 1966. Absolutely wonderful, absolutely a joy, absolutely what will keep you warm as we drift into fall and only want everything to come to life again.

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You’re going to love these, don't stop

Playing Noooow!

-the portastylistic