Lewis L'Amour

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• In 1983, a man named Lewis recorded an album named LAmour, which was released on the unknown label R.A.W. And thats about all we know.

  The record itself is a delicate, whispered album, reflecting the way the artist himself spectral, movie star-like almost disappears into the grey of the cover. It should come as no surprise that it failed to shout loudly enough to be noticed, another private press album that sank without trace.

  The ingredients are simple: smooth synthesizers, feather-light piano, ethereal, occasionally inaudible vocals and the gentle plucking of acoustic guitars. But the effects are arresting: a spine-tingling, sombre album that echoes Springsteens Nebraska or Angelo Badalamentis atmospheric soundtracks. Later, Arthur Russell would grasp for something similar on the epochal Wor