New Music: The Walkmen / Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Red River" / "Sealings" [MySpace]
Welcome back, Walkmen, from the plodding exile of Pussy Cats and (most of) A Hundred Miles Off! This is the band we fell in love with all those years ago, when we first heard "The Rat" or "Wake Up": Hamilton Leithauser stumbling through the wreckage of a crashing rhythm section and clarion guitar notes, snarling "I woke up in the trenches, I left the dead behind."
The best part? This is the second single from the Spiderman 3 soundtrack, which means we get to hear it blasting from multiplex speakers all summer long!
No idea if the song's actually in the movie (seems like more of an opening credits kind of thing to me), but if it is, I hope it's in a scene where Tobey Maguire gets really drunk and wanders around shouting obscenities at the moon before passing out in an alleyway in a pool of his own vomit. All while wearing his Spiderman suit, of course. Because that would be awesome.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Sealings" will probably be in ten seconds of a chase scene that just serves to get the main characters from one point to another. Basically, it's all flash, bang...whatever. Pretty generic blockbuster alt-rock, like one of the lesser cuts from The Crow 2: City of Angels. Be careful, Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Remember what happened to Pet and NY Loose? You don't? Exactly.
Stream: > The Walkmen: "Red River" / Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Sealings"
[from Music From and Inspired by Spiderman 3; due May 1 on Record Collection] [ORDER REGULAR EDITION] [ORDER DELUXE EDITION - FEATURING THE FLAMING LIPS DOING THE SPIDERMAN THEME SONG AS A BONUS TRACK!]