Indie rock veteran Hamilton Leithauser follows his earlier studio release “The Loves of Your Life” with a new live album featuring selections from his annual residencies at New York City’s iconic Cafe Carlyle. Each is from January’s performance. Hello world! My live record is now streaming everywhere. There is also a handsome white vinyl edition now available here. I invite you to please pull up a chair and escape today’s worries with a listen.
“I didn’t realize at the time that the 5 shows I played in January at Cafe Carlyle would be the only live shows I would do in 2020,” he said in a press statement. “I’m glad I recorded one of them. I found the tapes a few months later during this quarantine, and realized I wanted to share a bunch of them with a wider audience. I’m glad I recorded one of them. I found the tapes a few months later during this quarantine, and realized I wanted to share a bunch of them with a wider audience. The band was awesome, and it’s the closest thing to playing live I have right now, so it really was a fun thing to put together. I’ve only ever played most of these songs 4-5 times, so we were really still learning them that night. Playing live is such a big part of my life, and I don’t know when I’ll actually be able to do it again, so in the meantime, I hope this record might transport the listener for 30 minutes to a small, candle-lit cafe table in an overcrowded room while my band is ripping it up.
Hamilton Leithauser performing “Isabella” from his upcoming album “The Loves of Your Life” at The Carlyle Hotel in New York City.
“Here They Come” performed by Hamilton Leithauser live @ the Carlyle Hotel in NYC
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