
There's something classic, and iconically American about the cover of Twin Shadow's new record . There stands the project's mastermind George Lewis Jr., pristine rockabilly pompadour combed beyond perfection, wrapped in a worn leather jacket, the look across his face somewhere between pretty boy smugness and outsider vulnerability. In all its nostalgic simplicity, it almost immediately locates Lewis in a long and romantic mythology of bad boys, stretching back at least as far as James Dean. Lewis' claim that Confess was inspired by a motorcycle accident, self-admitted fast living and debauchery on the road, even his slick, [...]