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You And Me (The Walkmen album)

You & Me
Walkmen You&Me Cover.jpg
Studio album by The Walkmen
Released August 19, 2008
Recorded Gigantic Studios, Manhattan
Water Music, Hoboken
Sweet Tea Studios, Oxford
Genre Indie rock
Length 51:01
Label Gigantic (US)
Fierce Panda (UK)
Producer The Walkmen
The Walkmen chronology
Pussy Cats
(2006)Pussy Cats2006
You & Me
(2008)
Lisbon
(2010)Lisbon2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 78/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Alternative Press 3.5/5 stars
The A.V. Club A
The Guardian 5/5 stars
NME 7/10
Pitchfork 8.5/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars
Slant Magazine 2.5/5 stars
Spin 4/5 stars

You & Me is the fourth album by indie rock group The Walkmen.

A special pre-release of the album was made available on July 29, 2008 through the independent music website Amie Street. The album sold for five dollars, with proceeds going to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The album was officially released in the United States on August 19, 2008. During its first week of sales, the album charted at number 29 on Billboard's Top Digital Albums. The album was initially released on CD, with a limited heavyweight red vinyl edition released on September 2.

You & Me was released in the UK on September 29, 2008 by independent label Fierce Panda. The label released "The Blue Route" and "Canadian Girl" as singles on November 10, 2008 and "In the New Year" as a single on February 23, 2009.

The song "Red Moon" was featured in Season 2, Episode 2 of Breaking Bad and the song "New Country" was featured in the film 50/50.

You & Me garnered broadly positive critical acclaim from reviewers. Turntable Kitchen described it as "a thoughtful album that bears witness to a band that is comfortable in their own skin having learned the value of subtlety."Spin gave the album four stars out of five, calling it "a bittersweet, but emboldened fairy tale of New York City rock."The Guardian awarded the album five out of five stars, describing it as "intimate, intense and beautiful... You & Me demands repeat plays and The Walkmen deserve a new respect."Drowned in Sound gave the album 8 out of 10, saying "It's not a showy record, but one that when peeled apart reveals itself to be a darker and more engaging album than on first listen. But not only that, as it might also be the best thing they've ever done."


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