Claude says:You found The Walkmen's debut in the thick of the 2000s post-punk revival, when scrappy New York bands were mining angular guitars and stammering vocals for catharsis—Bows + Arrows caught that raw-nerve energy before they got slicker. "The Rat" stuck with you hardest, a track that coils and releases like anxiety itself, and you've kept coming back to it across a year of scattered spins.