at last, another album from our beloved brooklynites the walkmen. their fifth studio album is called lisbon and will be released september 14th on fat possum. frontman hamilton leithauser told pitchfork in february, “there is a lot of stuff that’s elvis-sounding, like early elvis and sun records kind of sounds. we have just so many eight-tracks over the last year; the list is just unbelievable… the instrumentation is very simple, and then there’s a very loud vocal and a softish drum. there is a slapback guitar on everything. 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 looped with the guitar.” sounds like a treat of an album.
