Romantic Times

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Earlier this year, we released the mysterious, bewitching L’Amour , a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music’s true lost talents: Lewis. Romantic Times is the 1985 follow-up to L’Amour – and it’s released as Lewis Baloue. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats. So lost, in fact, was Lewis, he eluded ev