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...show started with “What’s In It For Me,” immediately exposing Leithauser??s characteristic swooping and diving boom of a voice over fuzzy, layered organ chords. Also the first track on Bows, the song seems a logical album opener, but Leithauser says he originally opposed using it to start the record. “Actually, I was the only one against it,” he says. “I thought I sounded too sensitive or fragile or something for it to be the first thing people hear...
After Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone came out, the Walkmen dealt with comparisons of all sorts, not just to indie rock acts like the Strokes and Interpol, but even U2, as some critics compared Leithauser??s voice to that of the young Bono...
Songs on Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser??s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve?...
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