Album Info

A Hundred Miles Off

Alternative - 2006

After two stellar full-lengths of wintery urban ennui The Walkmen have finally struck out for the countryside with the aptly... more

Tracklist

1

Louisiana

3:52 min
2

Danny's At the Wedding

3:52 min
3

Good for You's Good for Me

2:17 min
4

Emma, Get Me a Lemon

3:07 min
5

All the Hands and the Cook

4:04 min
6

Lost In Boston

3:37 min
7

Don't Get Me Down (Come On Over Here)

4:00 min
8

Tenley Town

3:00 min
9

This Job Is Killing Me

3:27 min
10

Brandy Alexander

2:28 min
11

Always After You ('Til You Started After Me)

3:32 min
12

Another One Goes By

3:56 min

About A Hundred Miles Off

After two stellar full-lengths of wintery urban ennui The Walkmen have finally struck out for the countryside with the aptly titled A Hundred Miles Off, trading the emetic if captivating angularity of their earlier work for a more robust sound. If Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone and Bows and Arrows presented The Walkmen as young exiles fleeing across ice-slicked fire escapes, then A Hundred Miles Off sees them granted asylum in some bucolic protectorate. The Walkmen’s sense of shimmering dislocation remains, but their “all or nothing” urgency has been replaced by a vague sense of lazy unease. “Louisiana”, A Hundred Miles Off’s melancholic opener, wastes no time in announcing their change in direction with a slow wash of bent guitar strings and a languid bayou tempo that owes a great deal to the Americana-tinged fantasies that Bob Dylan and The Band were cooking up in the summer of 1967. By backing off from the hypnotic two-chord strum of their earlier work The Walkmen have created a unique and affecting record imbued with an adventurous spirit that can only bode well for the group’s future work.