Eric Lewis

Lewis strikes the chord of the chaotic zeitgeist in his wannabe Keith Jarrett improv garnering a wide variety of opinions and emotions. I told you the 70s were coming back.

Here's really what to look for because the guy is likely to become a darling - and that thing to look for is the establishment of the alternative rock of the 90s as a standard. Which is to suggest that those standards we have regarded as standards will recede in cultural memory. Cole Porter to be replaced by Curt Cobain. Wit to be replaced by rage and the articulation of feebly tender exhaustion on the upper registers of the keyboard will be the sounding board for a generation of maturing teens whose sensitivities resemble the wide-eyed weeping of the girl who just dodged the summer-camp axe-murderer. This music has all of the dynamics of uncomprehending exasperation, not of of a world of madness but of victims who never discovered the method.