• New York rockers discover maturity.

Hamilton Leithauser is the type of guy easily spotted down at the end of the bar drowning his sorrows and basking in the knowledge he’s messed up yet again. You’d think he’d have learned his lesson by now, but there’s always another song, another mistake worth singing about. While he makes it clear he’s probably not the best sort to rely on when it comes to a modern relationship (you knew what you were getting into from the start with this guy), at least his band, The Walkmen, is one of the most reliable and consistent rock bands going, forever wildly romantic no matter the disappointments and heartbreaks they’ve experienced — and, let’s face it, brought upon themselves.

While You & Me doesn’t quite shred with the same in-your-faceness that The Walkmen proved themselves so adept at on A Hundred Miles Off, it’s the type of record most often classified as “mature” in that its pleasures are revealed slowly on repeated listens. “In The New Year,” which proclaims, “I’m just like you/ I never hear the bad news,” is backed by swelling organs and reverb, just one of You & Me’s grown-up anthems in the waiting. Besides, no matter what he’s done, old Hamilton’s the type of guy you always let back in for a never-ending series of last chances. A keeper, you might say.