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| You & Me | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Walkmen
Label: Gigantic
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
Buy New: $9.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 624
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 00017
UPC: 675650001723
EAN: 6756500017232
ASIN: B001BODY0M
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping
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| Customer Reviews:
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 You & Me both November 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Bile-soaked single The Rat gave The Walkmen their biggest hit,but this doubt-ravaged fourth album is their most cohesive success.Its atmospheric, indie-infused Americana is a late night treat, Hamilton Leithauser's raw vocals - he sounds like a broken, drunken Bob Dylan - setting the contemplative tone. "Seven Years Of Holidays (For Stretch)" juggles past rootlassness with a desire for security. Red Moon is about missing home and making promises; the shaky optimism of In The New Year is built upon chiming, steely guitars. The sparse songs bloom into audacious,shambling melodies, Matt Barrick's clickety-clack percussion adding a quirky charm to the melancholy, funeral brass and subtle strings which flutter throughout. Intimate, intense and beautiful, You & Me demands repeat plays and The Walkmen deserve a new respect"
I can't really put it better than Betty Clarke's five star review from The Guardian UK (above). That a fourth album can be this good is astounding in these times of diminishing returns. Hamilton's vocals have never sounded better drenched as they are by the rest of the band's splashy and reverbed guitars and skittering drums and bass. Slower and more sure footed than previous efforts this moody magnificence continually made the hairs on the back my neck stand to attention. Scarily good.
Back on form after inconsistent "A Hundred Miles Off" September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You & Me is my second favourite Walkmen album. Only Bows & Arrows is better. Definite return to form after the slightly inconsistent A Hundred Miles Off. Only songs I don't really care for at this point are New Country and Long Time Ahead Us. Instant classics are On the Water, In the New Year, Seven Years..., and I Lost You. I was at the Walkmen show Sept 10 in Toronto and they sounded great. The set leaned heavy on this release and Bows.
I can't separate one thing that I like the best about the walkmen, but the bass really stands out on You & Me. Then again so do the guitars, vocals, etc. You can hear each instrument as it adds to the overall sound, even when it's a wall of sound. The loser who used to be the administrator on the Walkmen messageboard was writing them off as of this album. He was WAY OFF! I would be extremely surprised if any Walkmen fans would not like this album, at the same time I can them picking up new fans as the songs are quite accessable without being comercially bland.
A great album October 30, 2008
If you liked Bows + Arrows, this album continues their arc to a mellower place. I agree with a previous reviewer that it takes a few listens to get into it, but I've now racked up something ridiculous like 30 listens -- which MUST mean that I love it. It just flows so well from start to finish. Beautiful, haunting, chest-swelling music.
The Walkmen's Best Yet. December 3, 2008
Full of beautiful songs, You & Me is The Walkmen's best and most cohesive album. There is a depth to it that never existed or I never noticed on their other albums. Leithauser's lyrics and his voice are front and center on most tracks, and you can feel his emotions like he is sitting next to you. "Red Moon" and "Canadian Girl" are my favorites, but you can listen to this album all the way through and not be disappointed.
 For Bob Dylans fans mainly December 24, 2008
The type of guitar work in these songs and the yelping for singing is the type of lo-fie rock I have a hard time understanding/liking.
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