I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
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| Studio album by Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Batmanglij | |
| Released | September 23, 2016 |
| Recorded | July 2014 - February 2016 |
| Genre | Indie rock |
| Length | 40:34 |
| Label | Glassnote Records |
| Producer | Rostam Batmanglij |
| Singles from I Had a Dream That You Were Mine | |
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| Metacritic | (82/100) |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Consequence of Sound | (B) |
| Drowned in Sound | (8/10) |
| The Guardian | |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.3/10) |
I Had a Dream That You Were Mine is a collaborative studio album by Hamilton Leithauser, the former frontman of The Walkmen, and Rostam Batmanglij, the former multi-instrumentalist and producer of Vampire Weekend. It was released on September 23, 2016 on Glassnote Records, and preceded by the singles "A 1000 Times", "In a Black Out" and "When the Truth Is..."
After first meeting in 2008, while performing at the same show, the pair collaborated on two tracks for Leithauser's debut solo album, Black Hours (2014), before deciding to work together on a full-length. It was recorded between February 2014 and July 2016 at Batmangli's home studio in Los Angeles, and released under both artists' names as a tribute to the collaborative albums between David Byrne and Brian Eno.
Leithauser and Batmangli met in 2008, when Vampire Weekend supported The Walkmen at a show. Both originally hailing from Washington D.C., they would meet up while visiting their respective families during the holiday season: "Two years in a row at Thanksgiving and Christmas we would be up in Rostam's high school bedroom. The first time we were out there, I was just wailing away and singing so loud, and then you heard this voice from the bottom of the stairs, and it’s Rostam's dad. He's yelling from downstairs, like, 'Rostam, are you OK?' It was like we were teenagers up there."
Prior to working together on I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, Leithauser and Batmangli collaborated on the tracks, "Alexandra" and "I Retired", from Leithauser's debut solo album, Black Hours, released in 2014: "When we did those two songs that ended up on Black Hours, we both had this mutual feeling like there was some music that we’d always wanted to make and that when we were working together we were able to make that music." Before working on these songs, the duo had begun writing "1959", which would subsequently appear as the closing track on I Had a Dream That You Were Mine.
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