Post Tagged with: "Vampire Weekend"
Top 10 of 2010 – No. 9
For Vampire Weekend, fewer songs about punctuation allowed for further experimentation as well as some straight-up indie rockers. Their graduation from the college campus makes the notion of ‘second album syndrome’ seem quite ridiculous.
Latitude 2010 (part 2)
The final day of a festival always arrives too soon, and Latitude 2010 was no exception. Over the last 72 hours we had been spoilt with great sets from such luminaries The National and Belle and Sebastian along with eye catching turns from newcomers like The Kissaway Trail and Frightened Rabbit. However in terms of [...]
Duck & Cover No.7
On Monday WTGR favourites Mumford & Sons stopped by BBC Radio 1 to play both their new single The Cave and a rather brilliant version of Vampire Weekend’s Cousins for the ever wonderful Sara Cox. Sticking to form, it starts off rather slowly before kicking into overdrive upon the age-old command of an enthusiastic “1,2,3,4!!”. [...]
Album Review – Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend – Contra On paper it just shouldn’t work. Four graduates from Columbia University record a lo-fi indie record that is heavily influenced by both the rhythms and sounds of African music and the fuzzy rawness of The Strokes. However, upon the release of 2008’s self-titled debut it quickly became apparent that it not [...]
Vampire Weekend stream Contra
With the immanent release of their sophomore album Contra, Vampire Weekend have gone ahead and put the entire thing up on their Myspace page, to stream at your own leisure. On first listen it sounds rather good. If you’ve caught the band live in the last 18 months, White Sky will sound familiar as it’s [...]
Vampire Weekend – Cousins
It’s been doing the rounds for a few weeks now but incase you missed it, here is the new single from Ezra Koenig et al – Vampire Weekend. Entitled Cousins, it’s a short, sharp, panic attack of a song not too far removed from anything heard on thier eponymous ’08 debut. Compared to Horchata – [...]
