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" When the Walkmen&amp;#039;s Peter Matthew Bauer was a teenager, he spent time in a monastery in upstate New York. That experience served as the inspiration for his new song &amp;quot;I Was Born in an Ashram,&amp;quot; premiering here, one of the standouts from his forthcoming solo debut Liberation!. &amp;quot;I was thinking about being a teenager in an ashram every summer and the contradiction between these incredible joyous experiences that people all seemed to be having with the sort of darker shadow side of things that always seems to arise in this type of groups and places,&amp;quot; Bauer says. &amp;quot;I wanted to get both those experiences happening all at once.&amp;quot; The tune itself doesn&amp;#039;t sound dark at all and is a great indication of what Liberation! is about: jangly folk rock with hints of &amp;#039;60s psychedelia peppered throughout. It&amp;#039;s a satisfying sound for any fan of the Walkmen, without feeling redundant. &amp;quot;I learned a ton from those guys,&amp;quot; he says of his old band. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re like my family so everything is informed by that.&amp;quot; Liberation! is out June 24 on Mexican Summer. Listen to &amp;quot;I Was Born in an Ashram&amp;quot; below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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