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| Released | August 19, 2008 | |||
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| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 51:01 | |||
| Label | Gigantic | |||
| Producer | The Walkmen | |||
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You & Me is the fourth album by indie rock group The Walkmen. It was released commercially on August 19, 2008 by Gigantic Music in the United States, and on September 29, 2008 by Fierce Panda in the United Kingdom.
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. [1] 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. [2] [3] The album was initially released on CD, with a limited heavyweight red vinyl edition released on September 2. [4]
You & Me was released in the UK on September 29, 2008 by independent label Fierce Panda. Fierce Panda issued the songs "The Blue Route" and "Canadian Girl" as a double A-side single on November 10, 2008. A second single, "In the New Year", with the non-album track "Ride Down the Highway" as the B-side, followed on February 23, 2009.
The song "Red Moon" was featured in season 2, episode 2 ("Grilled") of Breaking Bad , and the song "New Country" was featured in the film 50/50 .
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100 [5] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Alternative Press |  [7] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [8] |
| The A.V. Club | A [9] |
| The Guardian | [10] |
| NME | 7/10 [11] |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10 [12] |
| Q | [13] |
| Rolling Stone | [14] |
| Spin | [15] |
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." [16] Spin gave the album four stars out of five, calling it "a bittersweet, but emboldened fairy tale of New York City rock." [15] 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." [10] 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." [17]
All songs written by The Walkmen (Hamilton Leithauser, Paul Maroon, Walter Martin, Peter Matthew Bauer, Peter Bauer and Matt Barrick).
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