For a guy who draws comic books, Jeffrey Lewis has a firm grip on reality. Maybe it's a childhood spent in New York's Lower East Side that keeps his feet on the ground and sets him apart from the knowing artiness of his contemporaries in the anti-folk scene.

Perhaps it's just the debilitating insecurities that fester in every song, leaving us in no doubt our hero is a panicky Clark Kent rather than a heroic Superman. But this, his first proper album, has all the clean lines and drawn-from-life detail of an old master. Layering 1960s-inspired garage - featuring brother Jack on vocals and bass - with lo-fi, fiddleheavy folk, Lewis seeks justification for a life spent underachieving.

There is fantastic drama in the speedy adventure of Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror, vivid strokes of emotion in the black and white upheavals of Don't Be Upset and Moving - and all without a caricature in sight.

· Download: Time Machine; Anxiety Attack; Moving