The Walkmen’s Walter Martin Announces New Album Arts and Leisure

Last year, the Walkmen‘s Walter Martin released a solo album of kid-friendly songs titled We’re All Young Together. On January 29, he’ll release Arts & Leisure on his label Ile Flottante Music. Check out the artwork, tracklist, and trailer below.

The album was recorded by Martin and mixed by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, the Shins). Walkmen drummer Matt Barrick appears on the album. On the album, Martin plays “drums, guitar, upright bass, piano, bass harmonica, trombone, organ, mandolin, xylophone, slide whistle, glockenspiel, and just about every noise-maker and percussion instrument you can imagine,” according to a press release.

“Through writing songs about rattlesnakes and chimpanzees, I figured out how to write lyrics that express my inner self in a voice that’s indistinguishable from how I naturally talk and joke around,” Martin said in a statement. “That was huge for me. Thankfully I was able translate it to non-animal subject matters.”

Arts & Leisure:

01 Jobs I Had Before I Got Rich and Famous
02 Daniel in the Lions’ Den
03 Down By the Singing Sea
04 Calder’s Circus
05 Michelangelo
06 Amsterdam
07 Charles Rennie Mackintosh
08 In a Gothic Church
09 Watson and the Shark
10 Old as Hell
11 The Tourist

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