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“I’m not a sad person, I just love sad songs” The debut release from Sydney music scene stalwart Mark “Looch” Lewis (or simply Looch to most) is a project that is as unlikely as it is curious. As long time drummer for iconic Sydney bush/punk outfit “Handsome Young Strangers”, many would be unaware that his musical career started in the Sydney punk and Detroit rock scene as a teenage lead guitarist. In 2017 he picked up a guitar for the first time in years, packed himself on a solo song writing trip to Cairns with the result being the four tunes which appear on his debut effort. Recorded over the last year, Lewis played acoustic, bass and drums before calling in favours from some of Sydney’s best music cats to finish the job. The result, “Apathy and Empathy” is a folk record in the purest sense. Slow songs. Sad songs. Songs of love, of love lost, of bad life choices and their effects on others. Whilst the themes of sadness and remorse permeate throughout the tracks, there is an