8.2
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#2,984
All Time
10
Tracks
“The pairing of the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser and former Vampire Weekend producer/instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij turns out to be an inspired one.”
“Now here are two people who know how to fill a sticky indie disco dancefloor. On one side there’s Hamilton Leithauser, frontman with New York group The Walkmen (on ‘indefinite hiatus’ since November 2013), and the band responsible for mid-noughties cult classic ‘The Rat’. On the other, Rostam Batmanglij; multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and sonic architect for Brooklyn’s [a]Vampire Weekend[/a], ”
“Hamilton Leithauser will forever be associated with the gripping intensity of ‘The Rat’ but his voice and ambition has always been about more than operating as The Walkmen’s vocal battering ram. It proved as the band moved away from the glowering force of ‘Bows + Arrows’, and with their 2014 hiatus ongoing, Leithauser’s debut solo album, ‘Black Hours’, became another solid exploration of older mus”
