Label: Cooperative (Universal)
VÖ: 08.10.2010
"Lisbon", the sixth album by The Walkmen is made for and from the (musical) time out. Moments, that will force them to repeatedly rewind and because of where you sit in front of the bipolar system.
Hardly a recording, which moves in the field vaguely indie-rock guitar music plays better with the void as a sound element. The songs unfold the New Yorkers instrument by instrument, a bit of minimal art in the pastel tones of the album cover. The lyrics are still laments the lost, missed, ignored Love - but performed with less pathos and more surf rock drums. What has "You & Me" distinguished - the soft spot for the warm sound - runs well by "Lisbon". One would imagine that the microphones be achieved as long in the studio to the sound of even the highest demands.
The band plays mainly vintage instruments, the guitars hit just the right tone between old and new, without nostalgia or scratch purism. And then we keep hearing these moments: the bass on "Angela Surf City." If in "Stranded" in the chorus until the band off and then starts with a shuffle beat again. The softly clattering drums on the final title track. The list can be continued arbitrarily, every song is revealed only at the right fifth or sixth listen. And even then, still not quite.
The guitar is sometimes melodic, sometimes rhythm instrument and the surf rock beat of "Woe Is Me" and "Angela Surf City" draws the contents of melancholy to the top. Almost euphoric, almost a reference to the sound of the surf durchkommerzialisierten 50s. Only almost, because the drums sound much too present and after 2010, the special, like a red thread determined by the stylistically different songs withdrawing overall sound of the band so much but without to be too greedy in the foreground or to work only on one genre.
"You do not want me / You can tell me / I'm the bigger one here sings Hamilton Leithauser, guitarist and singer of the band, and trumpets play a lament. "Woe is me" he will tell you a few songs later. This is phonetically the feel of the song "Stranded": "I'm stranded and starry-eyed", the band is and the voice is in the air.
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