Miles Marshall Lewis is a cultural critic based in Harlem, where he has been writing about music, film and literature since 1993. He is the author of the memoir Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises and editor of Bronx Biannual literary journal.
a heartfelt insight...informed and impassioned....But it's his
ability to make sense of this album's cocktail of crushed optimism
and acrimonious revolt that makes this volume so impressive.
*Mojo*
Miles Marshall Lewis's absolutely essential 33 1/3 on Riot tells a
good part of the story—the disillusioned national mood after the
Death of the Sixties, Sly's post-Woodstock ambivalence towards the
fame he once craved, and his sonic turn towards introversion and
quietude that manifested in muffled vocals and a restrained drum
machine in place of Greg Errico's thunderous backbeat.
*Pitchfork*
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