Experiencing The Walkmen is enjoying electricity running through your nerves, speeding your heart and flooding your mind with static pleasure. Their music is angry and erotic, sometimes furious, sometimes confused, but always intelligent. Even their first album, “Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone,” has a musical identity, which can only be compared to multiple cross-references from the CGBG scene of the 70s and 80’s. Their influences seem to linger in the realm of smart and often avant-garde acts such as Pixies and Velvet Underground. Often a hint of early U2 can be heard. All of this is strapped together with a modern radio sensibility, which easily puts them in the league with a band like the Foo Fighters. Their debut album has humble emotion and the follow-up “Bows and Arrows” continues that emotion but corrects its garage-ish production by what sounds like improved musicianship.


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