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Review: 'LEW'
'Black Feathers'   

-  Label: 'DME'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '27th May 2016'

Our Rating:
LEW is Sara Lewis Sørensen, a singer songwriter from Roskilde, Denmark.

She writes in the first person of the "grey shades of daily challenges" and while light is a constant metaphor she seems resigned to living in the shadows.

Her debut EP was titled Drenched In Night and the pervasive image of Black Feathers is of a figure wandering in darkness trying to find reasons to feel optimistic yet concluding bleakly "We are nothing but empty shells" (Stars And Wonders).

With her guitar tuned for a dark and resonant sound, her brooding songs echo the downbeat atmospherics of PJ Harvey's Is This Desire and the gothic intensity of Zola Jesus.

With shades of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven passes on some words of wisdom : "If you still have the light spread it wide" but there's little evidence of her taking this advice on board. Instead, in a track like Riverstone she prefers to contemplate life's possibilities from the confines of a room.

The songs are well crafted but since the sombre mood never truly lifts there is no real contrast. In consequence the 52 minute running time begins to drag quite quickly.

The blackness bordering on despair gives the impression of a woman paralyzed by self doubt; "My heart freezes by the thought of life" she laments on Cave.

Solemn to the point of being funereal, this is like a soundtrack to a Nordic Noir movie where you know from the first frame there will be no happy ending.

Lew's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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LEW - Black Feathers