A deep cut from a deep-career album. Like many of The Walkmen's best recent songs, "Line by Line" works with silence, space, and subtle shifts in dynamics. It's a simple tune organized around a simple metaphor, but by the four-minute mark it accrues a complex kind of tension. And then the strings come in: release.
"Line by line, / Oh, we all scrape by."
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