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Kyle Meredith sat down with Hamilton Leithauser to speak about his first solo album in 5 years, This Aspect of the Island, a file that took a full decade to complete. Hear above or wherever you get your podcasts.
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“I had songs I simply couldn’t let go of,” Leithauser admits, crediting his producers, his spouse and producer Aaron Dessner, for serving to convey all of it collectively. The album leans right into a extra danceable, groove-heavy sound — one thing Leithauser credit to years of listening to his daughters’ pop playlists, together with Chappell Roan and Charlie XCX. “Perhaps I simply needed to make one thing they’d truly hearken to,” he says.
Whereas the affect of pop is there, Leithauser’s signature natural instrumentation stays, with punchy drum tones that virtually demand air-drumming. “That was the purpose,” he laughs. Lyrically, he’s as sharp as ever, balancing specificity with universality, notably on the only “Knocking Hearts”: “You possibly can take a love tune nevertheless you need — about an individual, a spot, even a bottle of booze.”
After all, This Aspect of the Island comes on the heels of The Walkmen’s reunion tour, which he says was by no means a couple of full comeback. “It was presupposed to be 5 reveals, then we saved saying sure. However as for a brand new file? Not occurring.” Now, Leithauser is taking his personal rock ‘n’ roll cabaret-style present on the highway, together with his seventh residency at New York’s Carlyle Resort (presently ongoing) and a summer season tour with Father John Misty and Lucinda Williams. Get tickets right here.
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