The Walkmen
Bows and Arrows
It’s almost impossible to listen to the Walkmen’s second album without hearing a host of other bands–everything from erstwhile New York peers the Strokes and Interpol to anthemic antecedents U2 and Echo & the Bunnymen, even Bob Dylan. The charm of the disc, however, is how the band fits all the influences together–dreamy one moment, agitated the next–and rarely lacks a good, dramatic hook. Granted, singer Hamilton Leithauser’s slurred singing steals a lot of the attention, but the disc’s pleasures–the hypnotic, frenetic drums on “The Rat,” the lurching organ in “Little House of Savages”–lurk beneath its immediate and often irresistible surface attributes.
Take away: New York new wave
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