New Walkmen Video - "In The New Year"
As we said on premature evaluation day: unexpectedly, the Walkmen are a band that matters in 2008, and You & Me is one for the year-end lists.
"In The New Year" came as the advance track, and gave the record's relationship-focused narrative some framing: Ham on about hopes and resolutions, turning inward through the snow and through the therapy sessions, while the band soundtracked the stroll masterfully -- woozy, fighting for balance, traipsing downhill. The video doesn't really tap the Walkmen's potential for awkardness or drunknness, though. Instead director Norman Coady sets Leithauser up against a backdrop of Nosferatu clips, keeping it black & white and spooky, Hamilton straining at the mic as he finds himself superimposed into things dark, and evil, and relatively ancient.
(via P4K.tv)
You should have this:
The Walkmen - "In The New Year" (MP3)
You & Me is out via Gigantic and is awesome.
Posted at 12:01 PM by amrit in MP3, Video
Tags: The Walkmen
Song is amazing, so epic and emotional. Good stuff indeed.
Score = 3
This really is that good. By the way, in the best possible way, Hamilton reminds me a lot of Matt Beringer from The National - the mannerisms, the unique vocals, a very good thing indeed. But since this post is about the video, I should say I love the creepiness.
Score = -1
"we hope / that you CHOKE / that you CHOKE / September 26th"
Score = -2
This song rocks my face.
Score = -1
That video is amazingly bad. Take Hamilton out completely and it may have worked.
Score = -1
This album is definitely better than the last. And i'll add to the National comment - like their recent albums, this one taken as a whole does a great job of portraying a mood.
Score = 1
I dont know why, but the album Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone is the only album by this band that I could ever really get into, and I'd even put it in my top 10 albums of all time. All the other stuff though...just doesnt seem to have the same certain something.
Score = 1
i guess, yeah.
Score = 0
Awesome. How did they get Michael Phelps to sing in their video though?
I love the new album too, by the way. This is a good song, but there are better songs on the album. Check "On the Water" and "Four Provinces" for proof.
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