Jenny Lewis is the most tantalizing woman in modern rock n’ roll.
And while her latest solo endeavor, “Acid Tounge,” has been out for a few weeks already now, I cannot seem to get it out of my head.
Maybe I am just at the right stage in my life for this album. I find myself a barely legal sparkplug, soaking up every 42 of the New York scene while constantly searching for deeper meaning in life. “Acid Tounge” is the perfect soundtrack to the whirlwind-huddled clusterfuck that is my life. But, I can’t help but feel that this album graces the souls of a myriad of others. I think Jenny’ll sound good, too, when I’m 50. I think there have gotta be 50 year old women out there right now in cowboy boots and airy black capes loving this album as much as I do.
I found Rilo Kiley’s “Initial Friend EP” when I was 13, and ever since those first ominous dots of “85″ Jenny and her projects have enlightened and enriched my life (save the last Rilo Kiley album minus a few tracks, which I just did not get). I feel like Jenny Lewis’ music and I grow together - we truck through life at the same speed; Jenny’s music is always there for me at the end of the day.
And can we please address how sexy she sounds on “Acid Tounge”?
On the effortlessly epic, grabbing and geniusly orchestrated track “The Next Messiah,” she puffs “I want to tell you I love you” beneath Jonathan Rice’s vocal nursings, and I just fall to pieces. I die. Jenny warps and wefts between badass dirty midnight cigarette rocker chick and soulful endearing doo-wop enchantress throughout the record, and somehow remains so…sultry and poised and PERFECT throughout the whole ordeal. She even graces the coveted #2 spot on my “Girls I Would Go Gay For” list.
The echoey twangs and acoustic caresses of “Acid Tounge” hit my heart in the most perfect of spots, and I cannot help but wonder if anyone else out there feels the same way. I don’t read Pitchfork. But in my head, forever, Jenny Lewis is the quintessential endlessly talented indie woman. And I can’t wait to hear what she does next.
who is number 1 on your list of girls you would go gay for?
October 14, 2008 at 4:34 pm