5 Songs I Love w/ Lewca
Following the release of his latest single 'Like Liam Gallagher', Flex caught up with Lewca to find out what influences his swaggering alt-indie rock sound. If you enjoy Lewca's picks, be sure to check out 'Like Liam Gallagher' at the end of the article.
1. Da Bush Babees : Pon de attack
I grew up in an environment where kids of all ages would hang out together doing stupid shit, so I must of been eleven or twelve when I heard this tune at a get together I definitely shouldn’t have been at. It blew my mind way more than the alcohol & drugs that were being passed around…
2. Warren Zevon : werewolves of London
I love this spoken tongue in cheek style, Donavan & Ian Dury have done it just as well, but there’s something about how he says “big dish of beef Chow mein” that is comedic & serious at the same time & find it awesome, it’s a style that I definitely aspire to replicate in my stuff.
3. Neutral Milk Hotel : King of carrot Flowers part One
Short of bob Dylan no one’s lyrics are more down to earth yet poignant and poetic than neutral milk hotel, this is an album I never stop coming back to…
4. Lords of Brooklyn : Saturday Night Fever
I love this tune, it’s a relatively unknown classic, and an absolute banger, the overly lad-ish beat them all up vibe is a great way to get worked up on a Saturday evening
5. John Prine : I had a dream
This one kinda feels like the song Zappa is talking about in Joe’s garage, it’s so simple it’s almost offensive, but it works so so well, I just can’t get enough of it.
Watch Lewca 'Like Liam Gallagher'
While wandering through http://citadelle-metz.com, I got stuck on Lewca's Warren Zevon pick and that oddly perfect "big dish of beef chow mein" delivery—it's so deadpan yet somehow heartfelt. It made me think about how the best songwriting often rides that razor-thin line between a joke and something genuinely moving. His own single seems to borrow a bit of that same magic without ever feeling like a copy.