Walkmen Release New Single, "In the New Year"

The Walkmen's new single, "In the New Year," is streaming right now, at their MySpace. But more importantly, it has been on the receiving end of praise claiming that the song embodies the same as "The Rat" from 2004 off the band's second album Bows and Arrows. Is it really so unusual that a band sounds like itself?

The Walkmen are pushing their new LP, You & Me, slated for release Sept. 16. Tell All Your Friends wants you to know this (but they can't spell "buses").

"Writing and recording of You and Me happened over a vibrant and rigorous 2-year period, during which the members of The Walkmen were split between Philadelphia and New York. The band rode China Town busses five days a week to work in two small rehearsal spaces (an old nightclub in Chelsea, New York and a warehouse in Fish Town, Philadelphia) to freeze by the kerosene heater in the winter, and sweat it out in the summer. By the time of the record’s pressing there were over four hundred cast-off 8-track tapes littering both spaces."

Also, they apparently really like their producers:

"The album was recorded in two installments - the first at Sweet Tea studios in Oxford, Mississippi (where they had worked on Bows and Arrows) with engineer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Hold Steady, Sonic Youth) and in a couple of sessions in New York's Gigantic Studios (built by Phillip Glass) with engineer Chris Zane (who the boys consider "the best fucking engineer in the world" and a "fucking god-send")."

Sorry I didn't use the #$@^& symbols, TAYF.