Hamilton Leithauser
As a solo artist, Hamilton Leithauser takes the elements that made his band the Walkmen so special -- literate songwriting, a nostalgic but not navel-gazing sound, and a voice that sounds equally natural whether crooning or wailing -- in more personal directions. On 2014's Black Hours, he updated the torchy sounds of '50s and '60s vocal pop; with 2016's I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, he fused vintage rock and soul and 21st century indie in otherworldly ways; and on 2020's The Loves of Your Life, he animated his memoirist songwriting with vibrant, urgent music.
When the Walkmen went on hiatus following 2011's Heaven, Leithauser embarked on his solo career. He assembled a crack team of supporting musicians to work on his new material, including Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Fleet Foxes' Morgan Henderson, the Shins' Richard Swift, Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, and his Walkmen bandmate Paul Maroon. Recorded at Los Angeles' Vox Studios, Leithauser's debut album, Black Hours -- which was inspired by Frank Sinatra's music and prefaced by the single "Alexandra" -- was released in May 2014. In 2015, Leithauser and Maroon issued Dear God, a vinyl-only collection of stripped-down covers and originals that they followed with I Could Have Sworn, an EP for 2016's Record Store Day.
Leithauser re-teamed with Batmanglij for 2016's I Had a Dream That You Were Mine. Recorded at Batmanglij's home studio in Los Angeles, the pair borrowed the best of their previous bands as well as '50s and '60s rock and soul with postmodern abandon. On April 2020's lively yet intimate The Loves of Your Life, Leithauser took on all of the writing, producing, and recording duties.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC on 23 Sep 2016
Pitchfork: Best New Music24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
The Loves of Your Life
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glassnote Music LLC on 10 Apr 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Black Hours (Deluxe Edition)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ribbon Music on 30 May 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Live! at Café Carlyle (Live at Café Carlyle, 2020)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Leithauser & Leithauser Under Exclusive License to Glassnote Music LLC on 4 Sep 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Virginia Beach
Hamilton Leithauser, Kevin Morby
Alternative & Indie - Released by Dead Oceans on 12 Oct 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Dear God
Hamilton Leithauser, Paul Maroon
Rock - Released by Leithauser - Maroon Records on 13 May 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Isabella
Hamilton Leithauser, Lucy Dacus
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glassnote Music LLC on 2 Oct 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC on 12 Oct 2017
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I Could Have Sworn
Alternative & Indie - Released by Leithauser & Leithauser, LLC on 29 Oct 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Room For Forgiveness
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ribbon Music on 25 Nov 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Song with No Name
Rock - Released by Floating House on 27 Jul 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
In a Black Out (Remixed by Cassius + Buddy Ross)
Electronic - Released by Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC on 17 Feb 2017
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Alexandra / In the Shallows
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ribbon Music on 12 May 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
11 O'Clock Friday Night
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ribbon Music on 3 Apr 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Alexandra
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ribbon Music on 26 Feb 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo