Blog: Idolator

I like You & Me , by the Walkmen, but seeing it on so many year-end lists made me a little suspicious. After all, it seems almost designed to appeal to anyone listening to it in November or December. It's not only a wintry album, warm and soft and a little bit logy, like you've just eaten a big turkey dinner—but there are even explicit references to the holiday season in there, including a whole song about New Year's. Since year-end lists get made in precisely this period, and the album does sound uniquely good on [...]