Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine'I Had A Dream That You Were Mine' is an album of songs Hamilton Leithauser (Walkmen) and Rostam (Vampire Weekend) wrote and recorded together between July 2014 and February 2016. In the spirit of collaborative albums, not unlike those of David Byrne and Brian Eno, each musician's individuality remains in tact, while in fact, on this record, both Hamilton's identity as a singer and Rostam's as a producer seem to reach new heights. Many of these songs

It was co-written and produced by Brian Higgins (Girls Aloud and Sugababes)

but despite the evident influence of American guitar pop both past & present

18 songs were quickly captured and 12 songs chosen for the final album

which went viral and - with its remix - has had over 700k plays on Soundcloud alone

Trish Keenan's air-conditioned vocals sometime suggest a robotized Sandie Shaw or Cilla Black

flashes of mysterious light

"When you come home

" as Spike astutely observes) - amplifies the emotional resonance of an already heart-stopping lyric

hold you like an hour glass

unexpected stylistic evolutions

Believe me

Chuck Berghofer