Review: The Walkmen - The Walkmen - In The New Year
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I know this album came out a little while ago, but I just heard it for the first time and “In The New Year” might be the quintessential Walkmen song. It takes everything great about their albums - the triumphant hooks, the jangly guitars, the Saturday night swagger - and mashes them all together in one enormous shout from the rooftops moment.
It starts off unassuming, the guitars drowned in reverb and sounding like a soft fall through a layer of buoyant cloud. Singer Hamilton Leithauser floats over the melody seconds into the song, crooning like Dylan but strutting like Sinatra....
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