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Monday, November 19, 2007

reviewed: the walkmen at richards on richards...

I feel I've really slept on the Walkman over the past couple of years. Bows + Arrows was a brilliant disk, which I lived with for ages... but the following album and EP never really stuck. After Friday's show, for the life of me I can't figure out why.

The Walkmen delivered a solid performance for their entire set. The older stuff meshed well with the newer stuff. Things kinda jaggedly ping-ponged between their ultra gentle tunes and their post-whatever jangly rock tunes. The cool thing was that everything was held together by that atmospheric, wall of sound they so painless fire-off. It was dense and loud... and the whole time I was reminded how great some of their work really is and how I should dust off a few of their disks.

Openers, The Subjects, we're pretty good too. However, we only caught the last 2 - 3 songs of their set... actually, most people in attendance missed these guys, the place was empty when we arrived. Unfortunate.

Daytrotter has a live session with The Subjects... get up on it.

elsewhere

HCwDB, a primer

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