Album · Hamilton Leithauser
This Side of the Island by Hamilton Leithauser
This Side of the Island is an album by Hamilton Leithauser, released in 2025. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Knockin' Heart”, on 5 lists with a best position of #62.
This Side of the Island, released by Glassnote on March 7, 2025, is Hamilton Leithauser's first solo album since The Loves of Your Life in 2020, and the Walkmen singer spends its nine songs looking back at a romance from his younger days. The island of the title is Manhattan, the Lower East Side specifically, though the record carries a breezy, beach-side feel.
Leithauser produced it with Aaron Dessner and his wife, Anna Stumpf, and that voice is still the main event: a rafter-rattling croon that can sound ragged and romantic in the same breath. He described the title track, the first single, in terms of disillusionment, acceptance and resolve, and that arc runs through the whole album. "Knockin' Heart" followed as the second single in January 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Side of the Island on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knockin' Heart | 5 | #62 | – | 2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.