The 2016 release of Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Batmanglij’s collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, yielded the indie-rock hit “A 1000 Times” and scored an iPhone synch for “In a Black Out.” But after, Leithauser — who released his debut solo album in 2014 after nearly 14 years as lead singer of The Walkmen — struggled to record and release new work.
The music came easily, but the lyrics... not at all. A chance encounter on a commuter ferry between New London, Conn., and Orient Point, N.Y., changed that, and by mid-April of this year, the 42-year-old musician had released his second solo album, The Loves of Your Life.
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