Dizzy From The Circle

Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts “Support Tours”

I imagine the audience for a song about the specific things that make touring as an opening act so awful is fairly tiny, but I’m certainly in it. “Support Tours” is basically a very interesting and funny blog entry set to music, but it is in fact musical – Lewis’ words flow along a strong melody line, and his cadence and inflections add shades of irony, sadness, and bemusement to his lyrics’ jokes and truth-bombs. I particularly like when he gets to the part about graduating to headliner level and it being his turn to screw over some other band, and it’s like a defeated shrug. The entire song is just like “hey, this all sucks, but what can you do?”

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