Wednesday, December 22, 2004  

Sylvie Lewis
"All His Exes"
Tangos & Tantrums
(Cheap Lullaby, 2005)

Attention fans of Nellie McKay and Sarah Harmer:
I give you Sylvie Lewis.

She was raised in London and educated in Switzerland, Italy, Boston (at Berklee), the "East," and South Africa. (Meanwhile, Detroit, Howell, and Ypsilanti provided my special ed.)

So, what did all this edumacation do for ol' Sylvie? Apparently it made her real smart, boss, real smart, as she demonstrates on the witty "All His Exes" from Tangos & Tantrums, which features 12 great songs that sound old-timey and contemporary in equal measure.

The press info says Tangos & Tantrums is her debut, but after conducting a search with Inspector JJ Googs, this album is prolly her second, following Beautiful Mess (Holdenbass Music, 2002). She also did an EP, which is what caught the ear of Cheap Lullaby Records. But as with Sylvie's Web site (which is being redesigned), Cheap Lullaby's Internet thingy has next to zero info, so I don't know what the EP was called or where you can get it.

Tangos & Tantrums comes out February 8, and while Amazon.com doesn't have it up for presales as of yet, you can sign up for a mailing list at Sylvie's site in order to keep your ear to the ground.

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