Concert at Coco’s (2023)
Concert at Coco’s is a family party record inspired mostly by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Trini Lopez and that 90’s garage band from California called The Mummies.
It was recorded live at Coco’s Marina in July 2023 with a big band and a small audience.
The Bear (2022)
Martin’s songwriting is bittersweet and reflective, full of musings on music and family and an uncertain future…A warmth radiates from The Bear…His friendly-raconteur approach to songwriting, his self-effacing humor, his weathered voice, his optimism and disinterest in fronting as cool—it’s all there. —Pitchfork
Green Beans & Tangerines (2020)
Part III of Martin’s ‘Juvenile Series’ - Green Bean & Tangerines is filled with colorful story-songs about the sea, adventure and nature. Features “Let the Tall Ships Sail” written for Season II of Netflix’s acclaimed animated show, Hilda.
Common Prayers (2020)
Vice Magazine’s top albums of 2020. Vice: “Common Prayers is a balm for the soul—a comfort blanket of an album that quiets your mind, melts away your anxiety, and lulls you into a state of pure, impenetrable calm.”
The World at Night (2020)
Produced by multi-instrumental wizard and studio guru Josh Kaufman (Craig Finn, The National, Josh Ritter), the album is Martin’s most richly orchestrated and grandly cinematic collection to date, with sweeping strings and exuberant horns fleshing out his spare, understated vocal delivery.
Reminisce Bar & Grill (2018)
Reminisce Bar & Grill is the fourth solo album Walter Martin has recorded since his band the Walkmen split in 2013, and it’s one that might throw fans of his two award winning family albums for a loop. With frankness and poignancy, Martin, now a 43-year-old married man with two young children, squarely tackles the subject of adulthood specifically, his own. Darkly humorous mid-life reflections on marriage, fatherhood, work and fear of death.
My Kinda Music (2017)
Winner of 2017 Parents' Choice Gold Award, My Kinda Music is the second installment of Martin's "Juvenile Series" (following 2014's We're All Young Together). Songs about music, imagination and the creative process. Features guest vocals by The National's Matt Berninger and folk singer Laura Gibson.
Arts & Leisure (2016)
Arts & Leisure is a collection of songs that take inspiration from Martin's years of world travel as a musician, his younger days working in art museums and what he refers to as his "shaky grasp of college art history." Humorous personal stories about art, artists, museums and architecture.
We're All Young Together (2014)
Martin's much lauded solo debut, the Parents' Choice Award winning We're All Young Together features guest singers Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Matt Berninger (The National), Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) and Kat Edmonson. Songs about childhood, schoolyard romance, imagination and adventure.