Exclusive: a new track by Hamilton and Paul of The Walkmen, and a head injury
The Walkmen went on hiatus a while back, but singer Hamilton Leithauser quickly rejoined forces with guitarist Paul Maroon and released an album called Black Hours. The two are constantly collaborating, and they pretty quickly followed that record up with the slightly under-the-radar vinyl-only release Dear God. (Which they kindly offered to deliver to your house.) And now, they’ve got five excellent new songs to share, in the form of an EP called I Could Have Sworn. The first track was floating around last week, as it was inspired by the sure-to-be-blockbuster novel City On Fire, written by a friend of Leithauser’s named Garth Risk Hallberg. This new EP includes that song along with “New England Crows,” which you can hear below, and three more songs. Below that, Leithauser told us about the experience of returning to Washington, DC’s famed Inner Ear Studio to record these songs—he once bumped his head there. Hard. The EP can be had at Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon, and it’ll be released on vinyl eventually—and CD, “if we can figure out how to make CDs.”