100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #73 Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam – A 1000 Times

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Released : 2016

Former Walkmen singer Hamilton Leithauser and former Vampire Weekend omni talent Rostam Batmanaglij may have made for an awkward looking bromantic couple on paper, but I Had A Dream That You Were Mine was a record which could only have been made by two people working together for a good time, not a long time.

On it Leithauser’s gravelly, Methusulah sounding voice and Rostam’s studio trickery combined to create something timeless, a gritty blues with Tom Waits flourishes and a weary lyrical discourse full of characters bumping along life’s bottom.

I Had A Dream That You Were Mine was one broken man’s tale, a love story where it was hard to tell if the object of desire was real or not, the swill of stale whisky and dutch courage thrown against a backdrop of a ghostly band made up of of tin can players and the devil himself.  It was the end, but what a finale.

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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.