The Walkmen Turn Into The Roadmen

Lisbon was recorded over a two-year period in warehouses on Girard Ave in Philadelphia, and on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. A few songs that helped establish the record's tone were written during several inspiring and successful trips to Lisbon, Portugal.

The 11 songs on Lisbon were carved out of 29 songs that the band recorded over the course of ten months beginning in August 2009. You & Me engineer Chris Zane (Passion Pit, Les Savy Fav, Tokyo Police Club) worked with the band from August to February, and then in March of 2010 the band traveled to south Dallas to finish the album with John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions in the Sky).

Featuring the band's signature vintage instrument-sound, Lisbon brings a raw, fiery rock 'n' roll spirit to the complexities of the You & Me songwriting. Lisbon will showcase "a bunch of fast rockers and big bashers, and a couple great oddballs" says front man Hamilton Leithauser.