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- Record Label: Glassnote Entertainment Group
- Release Date: Sep 23, 2016
- Artist(s): Rostam
- Summary: This is the debut full-length release from the collaboration between the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser and ex-Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij.
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- Record Label: Glassnote Entertainment Group
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Top Track
| You Ain't That Young Kid | |
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| On the first night in June In a very crowded room The band was going on When you told me we were done So I couldn't play that song Cause I wrote it... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 23
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Mixed: 1 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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Sep 28, 2016A 1000 Times is an opening track as startling as it is oddly timeless, and if, when it debuted in July, it promised great things of this pairing, the resulting album certainly delivers.
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Sep 16, 2016Leithauser and Rostam have clearly tapped into the long, illustrious history of the great American pop standard for inspiration on these dynamic new songs, offering up their own inventive twists on the art form to keep the expressive dialogue going for a whole new generation.
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Sep 21, 2016Persuasively moody. ... More than anything, it seems the simple byproduct of strong personalities enjoying the process of finding common ground.
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MojoSep 16, 2016A palpably open and free atmosphere underscores these songs, on which the same exotic and dexterous musical arrangements Rostam honed with his old band allow Leithauser's sandpaper Sinatra to truly swing. true dream team. [Oct 2016, p.96]
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Sep 22, 2016The ambience of tracks such as Rough Going (I Won’t Let Up) is that of a boozy after-hours session in a backwater bar, while In a Black Out begins with fingerpicking guitar and choral backing vocals before being propelled into a dusty shuffle. But at the centre of it all is Leithauser’s distinctive voice--battered, bruised and pushing the Rod Stewart gravel-and-sandpaper-ometer into the red.
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MagnetNov 16, 2016Their playful mutability keeps them from being genre exercises and makes I Had A Dream a delight. [No. 137, p.57]
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Sep 26, 2016The just-so production and mastery of the American songbook is pure Rostam, while Leithauser anchors these story-songs with a plethora of vocal moods: gargles, croons and yelling.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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