LEVY

GLORIOUS the new LP now available in the UK and Europe
Glorious from Amazon.co.uk
Glorious from One Little Shop
Glorious from itunes
Glorious from emusic
"To me levy is the best band out of new york in years, and rotten love was my favourite song of last year and probably this one too... " - Tim Wheeler, Ash
LEVY is the painstakingly crafted love child of James Levy, an architect of modern New York City mythology whose mark on the world of pop music is merely beginning to be felt. Their new album, Glorious, will be released later this year by One Little Indian to audiences in the UK while they continue to seek a U.S. release. LEVY’s first album, 2005’s murmur pop masterpiece Rotten Love, continues to be one of my favorite albums. How wonderful, then, that James and co. have exited the recording studio with not merely a single new CD but a double CD highlighting both the songs of LEVY the band and James’s alter-ego, YVEL. Where LEVY’s tightly-knitted jangling pop anthems give you reason to dance away your heartbreak, YVEL mines James’s gift for storytelling via a Leonard Cohen-esque figure full of longing and yearning. This album is one of my most loved and most anticipated releases of 2007. -loudersoft 2007
"Ultimately, Levy, the band sounds like a collection of pop songs, but the lyrics themselves harbor a history of deception, heartbreak, death, confusion and betrayal, reflecting the boy-to-man status that the band seems to have achieved collectively, during their time in New York. The album, at times, is a hearty challenge, so I suppose it's fitting that my first meeting with the band was slightly challenging. But it is gratifying getting through to the core of their incredible duality of a seemingly simple pop band weighted down with a history of pain. That's why Levy is so great. Every time you come back to the record, you get another layer of the story. And I have a feeling that this is just the beginning." - Christen Thomas, Sup Magazine