A Hundred Miles Off
Etch N Sketch
ROCK
The guitars start at a lilt, and the gritty croon of vocalist HAMILTON LEITHAUSER is unmistakable: you know you're listening to THE WALKMEN. And by the time the opening track "Louisiana" ends, in an increasingly insistent sonic carnival of trumpet, piano and an almost Caribbean beat, you also know the band has raised the stakes!
'A Hundred Miles Off', the WALKMEN's third record, and the follow-up to the infamous 'Bows and Arrows' and this new offering is unquestionably the band's best work to date.
This album is packed with rockers, hymns and richly textured pop, with both wedding songs and drinking songs. It stakes out fresh and colourful new ground while retaining both a certain familiar fragile dynamism and the unabashed electric power of the Walkmen's breakout song "The Rat" from their last album.
Touring Australia / New Zealand in early 2007 as part of a new festival.
STYLUS MAGAZINE "Glory be to us then for A Hundred Miles Off...the band's throatiest, most pressing and urgent release to date" ... POP MATTERS "When the Walkmen are on, they can be as compelling as ever" ... MONSTERS AND CRITICS "...this is a band for the ages. Joining a post-motorcycle-crash Dylan vocal delivery with a Springsteenian of-the-streets spirit, whiskey-soaked singer Hamilton Leithauser leads his band through a set of rousing, sharply focused, late-night pleas and barroom romps that take the group well beyond its garage roots"... ROLLING STONE "singer Hamilton Leithauser's sore-throated vocals can be surprisingly moving, as on the impressionistic street-life tale Lost in Boston"
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Louisiana
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Dannys At The Wedding
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03 |
Good For Yous Good For Me
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Emma Get Me A Lemon
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All Hands And The Cook
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Lost Ion Boston
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Dont Get Me Down
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Tenley-town
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This Job Is Killing Me
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Brandy Alexander
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Always After You
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Another One Goes By
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