You & Me
After a downturn with 2006's A Hundred Miles Off and a grisly full-album cover of Nilsson/Lennon's Pussy Cats, the Walkmen triumphantly return to form. You & Me is more than their most focused record to date-- it's also their most carefully crafted and heartfelt while simultaneously feeling totally effortless. Rarely has the word "unambitious" translated into such a positive attribute: They just make it look that easy.
It's been a long time coming, but from the first groggy rumblings of The Walkmen's fourth album, it's clear that the party's over. Much as Sound Of Silver saw LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy waking up to the morning after, You & Me finds singer Hamilton Leithauser contemplating "Seven Years Of Holidays" and realizing…
Six years is a long time in any ones books; especially so in the buzzing metropolis of New York and it’s music scene which shot The Strokes into the limelight back in 2001. Yet six years is how long The Walkmen have been kicking around, recording…
The Walkmen took a working holiday from their usual sound on their remake of Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats and, to a lesser extent, on the Dylan-goes-Latin vibe of A Hundred Miles Off, but they return to more familiar territory on You & Me.
The Walkmen are a group whose albums are defined by their respective openers.
The Walkmen - You & Me review: Leithauser and co. show a stunning breadth and depth of emotion and do the best to coax that out of their instruments on what may be their best effort yet.