The Walkmen showcase rockers and oddballs on ‘Lisbon’
Indie band The Walkmen release their new album Lisbon, September 14 with a performance at The Fillmore in San Francisco the same evening.
Signed to Fat Possum Records, home to The Black Keyes, Band of Horses and Dax Riggs, the New York quintet worked on the album for two years with You & Me engineer Chris Zane returning as producer.
Lisbon will showcase “a bunch of fast rockers and big bashers, and a couple great oddballs” says front man Hamilton Leithauser.
“There is a lot of stuff that’s Elvis-sounding, like early Elvis and Sun Records kind of sounds. The instrumentation is very simple, and then there’s a very loud vocal and a softish drum. There is a slapback guitar on everything,” Leithauser told Pitchfork.
“I don’t know if it will end up being used at all, but I think that was a starting point for a lot of stuff that Paul [Maroon] looped with the guitar. A real paring-down at the beginning.”
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