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 | Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Publisher: Xl
Released on 28 January 2008
List Price: £11.99
Who would have thought it? Nobody, that's who. The last time African music enjoyed any meaningful dalliance with the Western mainstream it was under Paul Simon's patronage with his peerless 1986 album Graceland. That's if you don't count Damon Albarn's extra curricular indulgences (which you don't). The last place we expected it to turn up again was from four New York kids who otherwise might have been found fiddling with their fringes in dorm rooms waiting for the Albert Hammond Jr. tour to hit town. Even by the obscure standards US indie has set itself over the last few years (see TV on the Radio and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) Vampire Weekend offer up a witch's brew of audacity. That alone would be sufficient to garner infamy and a rep for experimentation, but they also hang from this rebellion of form a stream of alt-tunefulness so efficient and unabashed it would make The Strokes' first album blush. Thus, the piping reggae organ and sun-kissed swagger of "Oxford Comma" is... Read More
| Tracks |
| Mansard Roof | Oxford Comma | A-Punk | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa |
| M79 | Campus | Bryn | One (Blake's Got A New Face) |
| I Stand Corrected | Walcott | Kids Don't Stand A Chance |
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