To kick off our ongoing feature on pop's overlooked masterpieces, here's New York's The Walkmen with their 2004 track The Rat, an almost impossibly exhilarating barrage of thunderous percussion and post-Strokes guitar noise.
The Walkmen are still going - they released their underwhelming third album, A Hundred Miles Off, in 2006 - but they've never been able to match the extraordinary, propulsive drama of this track...
3:10 PM | 08/05/2007
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