12 Crass Songs is the fourth album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis.

The title is literal, as all 12 songs on the album were written and first recorded by the band Crass.

In a 2013 interview with Audio Antihero Records, Jeffrey Lewis explained his motivation for the album: I do love Crass, and I also wanted some of those songs to be enjoyable to people who don’t only want to listen to early 80s hardcore punk.

In Led Zeppelin the style and the substance sort of have to go hand in hand, and if you mess with that then you’re just creating a joke, like Dred Zeppelin, or those lounge covers of Stairway to Heaven, etc., etc.

The original Crass recordings are totally great and impossible to make any better, but the substance is strong enough to outlive that.