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You & Me
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Track Listing
- Dónde Está La Playa
- Flamingos
- On the Water
- In the New Year
- Seven Years of Holidays
- Postcards from Tiny Islands
- Red Moon
- Canadian Girl
- Four Provinces
- Long Time Ahead of Us
- Blue Route
- New Country
- I Lost You
- If Only It Were True
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7205 in Music
- Released on: 2008-09-29
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
'You And Me' is the fourth proper album from New York's TheWalkmen and follows their 2006 song-for-song cover version of the Harry Nilsson album 'Pussy Cats'. Recorded and produced by the band themselves with the help of Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, Asobi Seksu), the album sees The Walkmen continue with their unique brand of indie-rock, while confidently maturing as songwriters.
Customer Reviews
Guardian Review 5/5
Bile-soaked single The Rat gave The Walkmen their biggest hit,but this doubt-ravaged fourth album is their most cohesive success.Its atmospheric, indie-infused Americana is a late night treat, Hamilton Leithauser's raw vocals - he sounds like a broken, drunken Bob Dylan - setting the contemplative tone. "Seven Years Of Holidays (For Stretch)" juggles past rootlassness with a desire for security. Red Moon is about missing home and making promises; the shaky optimism of In The New Year is built upon chiming, steely guitars. The sparse songs bloom into audacious,shambling melodies, Matt Barrick's clickety-clack percussion adding a quirky charm to the melancholy, funeral brass and subtle strings which flutter throughout. Intimate, intense and beautiful, You & Me demands repeat plays and The Walkmen deserve a new respect.
You and Me Both
I can't really put it better than Betty Clarke's five star review from The Guardian. That a fourth album can be this good is astounding in these times of diminishing returns. Hamilton's vocals have never sounded better drenched as they are by the rest of the band's splashy and reverbed guitars and skittering drums and bass. Slower and more sure footed than previous efforts this moody magnificence continually made the hairs on the back my neck stand to attention. Scarily good.
Album of the year 2008
It was a close-run thing between this and the Felice Brothers. This gets it by a whisker. What a great album.
