Blog: AudioCred

Listen to “The Rat,” the first single from the Walkmen’s 2004 album Bows + Arrows, and you’ll know what it’s like to be caught in the eye of a hurricane. Fierce, fiery drums that only increase in power and speed as time goes on, vocals that screech and wail with the raw emotion of heartbreak. Loud, loud, loud. This was the Walkmen then; Heaven is the Walkmen now. While that bit of slightly old-timey nostalgia has always been hidden somewhere within their music, it’s the band’s seventh and latest full-length LP that brings it fully to [...]