{"id":15646,"date":"2010-09-14T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk:80\/wordpress-3\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:51:19","slug":"mere-om-the-walkmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/mere-om-the-walkmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walkmen flyver h\u00f8jt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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S\u00e5l\u00e6nge vi her har fulgt The Walkmen, er de ret ofte blevet sparket ned ovenfra af musikkritikerne i USA. Anmeldelser lige nu af spritnye Lisbon byder derimod p\u00e5 andre takter, som nu den nedenst\u00e5ende 5-ud-af-5-mulige-stjerner’s lovprisning fra The A.V. Club. Man bliver jo n\u00e6rmest stolt af den fuldbyrdede forvandling fra grim \u00e6lling til flyvedygtig svane…<\/p>\n

One of the best rock bands of the 21st century makes a masterpiece.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With each album, The Walkmen wring more and more out of less and less, stripping songs to a simple pounding beat, washes of trebly organ, short and shimmery guitar riffs, and Hamilton Leithauser\u2019s braying voice. (And sometimes they leave one or more of those elements out, just for the challenge of it.) Yet The Walkmen\u2019s sixth album, Lisbon, is the band\u2019s most tuneful, varied, and expressive, though it\u2019s as minimalist as ever. After the very good but doggedly mellow You & Me, Lisbon comes on more urgent and impassioned, starting with the bouncy \u201cJuveniles,\u201d on which Leithauser declares, \u201cYou\u2019re one of us or one of them,\u201d and continuing through 10 more songs that draw lines between rich and poor, winners and losers, leaders and followers. Informed in equal measure by reverb-drenched Sun Records singles, New Orleans brass, surf songs, and the Old World dignity of Portugal, Lisbon is nothing if not deliberate, as The Walkmen grab onto a musical or lyrical idea and bat it about, unwilling to let it escape. Their tenacity leads to evocative songs like \u201cBlue As Your Blood,\u201d in which Leithauser\u2019s voice floats above a jumped-up rhythm, as though skirting the fray; \u201cVictory,\u201d which clicks up slowly like a rollercoaster and then rushes downward over the chorus; and \u201cWhile I Shovel The Snow,\u201d which is as still as a winter morning. Lisbon is like a treatise on the untapped power of the have-nots, delivered by the kind of people who could turn a raw potato, a cup of water, and a pinch of salt into a five-star dish.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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S\u00e5l\u00e6nge vi her har fulgt The Walkmen, er de ret ofte blevet sparket ned ovenfra af musikkritikerne i USA. Anmeldelser lige nu af spritnye Lisbon byder derimod p\u00e5 andre takter, som nu den nedenst\u00e5ende 5-ud-af-5-mulige-stjerner’s lovprisning fra The A.V. Club. Man bliver jo n\u00e6rmest stolt af den fuldbyrdede forvandling fra grim \u00e6lling til flyvedygtig svane… … L\u00e6s videre The Walkmen flyver h\u00f8jt<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n