Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 07/22/2022

Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 07/22/2022Anybody who thought the seemingly bottomless well of musical breakouts from New York would have dried up by winter 2008 got a shock from the rapturous reception given this impressive debut. Foregoing hipster Brooklyn for the more collegiate Upper West Side campus of Columbia, the quartet's music follows suit. This is hardly the loft party lysergia of their counterparts across the East River; rather, it's a catchy cocktail of ethno rhythms, psych lite

there's a sense of practiced composure on their albums that's refreshingly absent from the acoustic home recordings of "The Queen of Lower Chelsea" and "Boxer

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but with their feet firmly in the rap camp

most of all

Then again

~ Fred Thomas Format: Vinyl

Released: 06/17/2016

almost shimmering acoustic guitars

Additional personnel: Rick Rubin (piano)

sardonic wit is as abundant as Andrew Van Wyngarden and Ben Goldwasser spoof the stereotypical rock & roll lifestyle with lines like "Lets make some music

Released: 5/3/2019

Hollywood Park (Colored Vinyl