Time Out hosted the official launch of the debut album from psych-glam-garage-blues-rock Pop Levi. The night was full of unusual exotica including life size teddy bears and giant lava lamps
'He dropped one of the albums of the year and we defy anybody
to resist the neafrious powers of his amazing acid soul psych-boogie'
Time Out's Music Editor Eddy Lawrence.
'After his crowd-confounding performance at our On The Up show in September we just had to ask Pop back to headline.'
Levi is best known as the bassist for Ladytron and a founder of Supernumeri. 'I didn't want to sound like anything else that was being made now' he says. 'I wanted to take that approach as if Phil Spector and Prince had produced a Bob Dylan record'.
Whatever his approach, it is getting attention.
Read Eddy Lawrence's interview with Pop Levi
See pictures from his first On The Up appearance
www.poplevi.com
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