The Walkmen's Peter Matthew Bauer announces solo album Liberation!, streams track “Latin American Ficciones”
With two new solo albums from members of The Walkmen already coming, why not add another? Now, the band’s Peter Matthew Bauer has confirmed details of his looming lone effort.
Whilst Hamilton Leithauser will release Black Hours on 5 May and Walter Martin We’re All Young Together on 13 May, this new solo LP from Bauer will surface on 23 June in the UK and 24 June in North America. It’ll be called Liberation!, with lead track “Latin American Ficciones” streaming below.
Here’s the LP’s tracklist in full:
1 I Was Born in an Ashram
2 Latin American Ficciones
3 Philadelphia Raga
4 Fortune Tellers
5 Shiva the Destroyer
6 Liberation!
7 Scientology Airplane Conversations
8 Istanbul Field Recording
9 Irish Wake in Varanasi (For Big Pete Devlin)
10 Shaved Heads & Pony Tails
11 You Are The Chapel
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