Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

I was thinking that this fool is the only singer who can sing against this arrangement without collapsing into preciousness.

Ha, I just felt it fully careening into said preciousness and had too many flashbacks of run of the mill indie rock albums I've heard in recent years. Ah well.

Step is fantastic, love the effect on Koenig's voice during the chorus.

Step is great.

I am quite surprised by Ned's reaction. I think Step is the best thing they've done. I don't really 'get' Diane Young though....maybe it will take a few more listens. My sister would be upset by the video as a Saab owner.

yeah what a waste of a beautiful 900 cabrio

both these new songs are pretty good imo

I think "Step" sounds like an outtake from Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant, which I'm kind of fine with, actually.

I kind of love it despite myself! It sounds like Beachwood Sparks

new song remind me of Hurdy Gurdy Man

sounds like Ween covering Vampire Weekend

wtf at these lyrics

sounds like John Hodgman writing a chapter about William Burroughs

irl lol at the sampled vocal in Diane Young, that is like some Casio SK1 shit there

I think "Step" sounds like an outtake from Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant, which I'm kind of fine with, actually.

My disdain for it suddenly clarified!

I freely admit I lasted thirty seconds into "Step," thought "Fuck this" and moved on.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, March 18, 2013 6:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

really do not like either of these songs. way worse than the singles from the previous records, which I still didn't like all that much but at least were a bit endearing.

I also don't get this seeming move to a facebook macro-ish visual aesthetic

that cursive font on a black and white photo makes me feel like I am being cordially invited to the 3rd annual playa's ball

this thread makes me think i'm at the 3rd annual playa haters ball!

I like both songs on first listen. They seem like logical progressions from styles they played around with on Contra. Count me as psyched for the album.

Everybody talking about "Step" but I'm way more into "Diane Young". The Souls sample in the former is cute but it doesn't do a lot for me beyond that. I fux with digital rockabilly tho.

boys coming back in fine form. the production gives the songs a somberish quality that's new for them. it's a good look.

ezra sounds fantastic, also.

ezra's vocals are fantastic across the entire album

From Diane Young: "You've got the luck of a Kennedy"

Good to see Ezra refusing to take his own advice and leave Hyannis Port, the ghetto.

"Stet"'s vocal melody is kinda formulaic Ezra imho

very harsh on stet

Ezra's hair is fantastic.

ok "step" is quite good

diane young has been stuck in my head for a day

not feeling his vocal on "Diane Young" yet but the band is terrific. As for "Step," the "I feel it in my b-o-o-nes" hook is stuck in my head.

the little vocal turn at the end of "boooones" is what makes the chorus for me

also this song is another one for the pachelbel's canon list

I am not feeling "Step" ;_;

"Diane Young" is great tho ^_^

I feel like most rock bands should take every mid-tempo song from their catalog and burn them on a bonfire tho

do not want

If you follow the melody of Step back through Souls of Mischief and its Grover Washington sample you end up at Bread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXek853SDE

I would not have caught the Souls of Mischief "allusion" if you guys hadn't mentioned and, now that I'm listening for it, it's still barely catching my ear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvBmr_b-Rpg

the melody + "back back way back when" + "every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl"

I am quite surprised by Ned's reaction. I think Step is the best thing they've done. I don't really 'get' Diane Young though....maybe it will take a few more listens. My sister would be upset by the video as a Saab owner.

― Grandpont Genie, dinsdag 19 maart 2013 13:23 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah what a waste of a beautiful 900 cabrio

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), dinsdag 19 maart 2013 14:01 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

GG's sis and baaderonixx teamed up: http://pitchfork.com/news/50128-vampire-weekend-caught-in-controversy-over-burning-of-saab-cars-in-diane-young-video/

Ha ha yeah saw the initial outrage on the Saab blogs I follow. Funny to see that world collide with the Pk4 one

Is it true that the bassist of Aerosmith is a "Saab enthusiast"?

Ownership and brand loyalty

As the brand has an unusual image in most markets, Saab owners tend to be correspondingly offbeat: intellectuals and enthusiasts.[109][110] In his studies of brand communities, Albert Muniz, professor of marketing at DePaul University in Chicago, found significant characteristics of Saab owners which he called Snaabery.[111][112] These included ownership of an original, pre-GM Saab; camaraderie with other Saab drivers and contempt for other brands such as BMW. Writer John Crace characterised the typical "Snaab" as a creative advertising executive with large spectacles and an asymmetric hairstyle.[113] Rüdiger Hossiep, a psychologist at Ruhr University Bochum, found that Saab drivers have the highest level of psychological involvement with their cars, being over 10 times more passionate than the average Volkswagen driver.[111] Saab's main three markets are Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.[113]

what a lol controversy

Next time they'll up the ante and burn a Saab owner.

why do bands even bother "apologizing" for shit like this

i'm seeing them tomorrow, apparently

do they know?

this thread is my warning

New single out.

hell yeah, haruomi hosono sample on 2021

They quote Finger Back on Harmony Hall, lol. Really don't know what to think of it.

Harmony Hall is pretty nice - a bit longer than usual for them but the way they stretch it out is fun enough. i like the Hosono sample on 2021 too

i'm not blown away by these tracks but i like the general vibe of them a lot and the production is much much nicer than on MVOTC too so i'm optimistic enough

For a second I thought Harmony Hall was a snide attack on Batmanglij, but he worked on it, so I don't think that's the case. Reading up on Harmony Hall and Owenism, it's a pretty stark image.

Someone create a new thread.

Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride