Following the recent reunion of his band The Walkmen after a decade away for a string of high-octane performances, vocalist Hamilton Leithauser returned this year as a solo artist with his first new solo material since 2020’s The Loves of Your Life. His new LP This Side of the Island was more reflective of the anxieties he and the loves of his life have endured in this post-COVID era, striking a perfect balance between lounge-lizard crooning and his band’s driving indie rock as the lyrics reflect that stress with plenty of black humor.
To get a better sense of how he achieved that balance, Leithauser is taking over the FLOOD FM airwaves this week for a new episode of “Hacked.” The track list he shares features plenty of indie-rock contemporaries, such as Beach House, Fleet Foxes, and Panda Bear, as well as iconic singer-songwriter ballads from Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, and Warren Zevon and alt-rock classics landing somewhere in between. Check out the full episode every day this week (March 24 – 28) at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 10 p.m. only on FLOOD FM.
