Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

You know as much as these guys aren't a great band, I'm glad to have someone this omnipresent doing something a little interesting than another four guys pretending to be Pavement or Talking Heads.

fuck these motherfuckers

fucking fuckers are guarandamnteeing a Northern Exposure revival or some such shit

"oh, if only paul simon would YELP."

blurhgg. the more I hear this album the more I realize how boring and bland it is. It makes my blood turn into lukewarm oatmeal. I listen to it and I suddenly own a condo walking distance to Park Slope and I drive a Volvo.

It's a pretty sad testament to the state of NYC. 99% of the interesting bands have already bailed out of here, so this is what we've got left.

ILM should learn how to have fun.

sex, drugs, new, weird sensations and experiences, upsetting challenging ideas... that's fun. listening to the drywall-flavored music made by the blandoids who've come to dominate NYC and drive out all the really good bands/artists/writers/etc. isn't my idea of fun.

There are like two big x factors with these guys. First, the singer may be a pretty great pithy lyricist at a time when a lot lyrics are wordy and overwrought. Second, I have no idea how seriously they take themselves and I kind of like that about them. They way they make being in a band seem really easy is kind of obnoxious-but-charming. I think I may want to like them more than I actually like them.

Anyways, what good bands have left NYC? All I can think of is Liars, but a ton of bands that put out well regarded albums in the last two years are still there.

remember when vampire weekend drove all the good bands and writers out of new york??

do not let vampire weekend into your city.

Liars, Animal Collective, Enon (well, a few years ago they were good), etc. Think of a really cool NYC band in the past few years, look 'em up, and chances are they're probably now based in Baltimore, Philly, Berlin, or the West Coast.

I hear better stuff coming out of Sacramento these days than New York.

the album is good, but i wish there was no hype for this,cause it's ruin it.

I dunno, Dirty Projectors, Battles, The Hold Steady, LCD Soundsystem, Oxford Collapse, Mahogany, some portion of !!!....TVOTR, Lansing-Dreiden. We could argue about the merits of particular bands but that's all stuff I enjoyed in the last two years that's still NYC-based.

Williamsburgh to be specific

Nah, the Dirty Projectors dude is in Bed-Stuy.

but yeah, that'd be my counter argument. I mean, what's next after these bands, though ... kids moving to Brownsville and East New York for the cheap rents? It just feels like the new exciting stuff is skewing to the cheaper cities and suburbs, just like over the past few years its gone to the cheaper neighborhoods in the outer boroughs.

Mr. Stanton, you have convinced me to stop listening to Vampire Weekend.

Yeah I agree with you on the next wave....NYC's had a pretty great run over the last 6-7 years but these things are always cyclical. American indie rock seems like it's sort of in a state of flux everywhere and it's hard to say where the next big geographic center will be...LA maybe?

the chicago days were nice..

but yeah, that'd be my counter argument. I mean, what's next after these bands, though ... kids moving to Brownsville and East New York for the cheap rents? It just feels like the new exciting stuff is skewing to the cheaper cities and suburbs, just like over the past few years its gone to the cheaper neighborhoods in the outer boroughs.

http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif This just in! Artists and band members can't afford to live in high rent areas. Move to cheaper areas http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif

*BREAKING* New York, NY- Notorious indie upstarts Vampire Weekend put the sum total of New York's cool artists on a train to Auschwitz, says angry music fan Burt Stanton.

stop talking about this shit and talk more about how Vampire Weekend suck

why do people say they sound like the feelies when they mean they dress like the feelies

Hot Hot Heat coulda totally stole their thunder if they'd released a cover of "Day-O" last year

haha keep 'em coming

Ivy League indie rock with unfashionable influences T/S: Vampire Weekend vs. Bishop Allen?

burt santond etc it shouldnt really be so hard to trash this band - shape up!

i have heard better insults coming out of modesto!

all the good hating has moved to portland!

*BREAKING* New York, NY- Notorious indie upstarts Vampire Weekend put the sum total of New York's cool artists on a train to Auschwitz, says angry music fan Burt Stanton.

-- brightscreamer, Monday, January 28, 2008 1:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol

you think they'll ever achieve the heights of say, "Nothing But Flowers"?

new york is so uncool. im' totally moving to berlidelphia, maryland

my favorite is M79, even if it's a shameless "This Must Be the Place" rip

this band is boring but i haven't listened to them enough to really say anything other than that but to all haters distill your haterade to victory-ol and triumph!!

arcade fire were the first successfully blog hyped bland, no? and we have the arctic monkeys. who else?

nabisco's review v. cheekily invokes the sfj piece re: palpable basslines a bit of empty space. i lol'd.

I will bake fresh, delicious cookies for the first reviewer that mentions Lizzy Mercier Descloux instead of <i>Graceland</i>.

...and some day I will remember which boards use HTML and which use BBCode.

pitchfork are joining the party big time (8.8)

ah this promises to tun into one of the all-stars classic ILM threads

FFS, I even read an enthusiastic review of this album in yesterday's Financial Times week-end supplement.

worst party ever

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Well, it's the most instantly appealing album I've heard in a very long time, so it's entirely possible that I might be sick of them in 6 months' time. Best make the most of them while I can, then.

They could be the Arctic Monkeys of 2008 in terms of "Butbutbut they happened WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!" outraged bluster - but that's a strictly localised phenomenon, right?

but srsly the afro-pop groove plays nicely w/sensitive white boy rocking - dont know why its still a novelty

the new single doesn't really do it for me

ive only heard the 10 song cdr

whereas Paul Simon's last 45 was SLAMMIN xp

[ban me] gave the first Bloc Party album an 8.9, so the praise for this album feels slightly muted

sorry, NABISCO. I didn't realize using the first name of the writer of an article on Pitchfork could get me banned, sorry!

Can I type the word Jess? Scott?

hmmm

well this is amusing

Ok done writing my review, this goes on my shortlist for 2013

yessssss

there is a dedicated thread for this album, which it deserves: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

I saw them and they sucked. There was one good part but it was really bland. Real thin sound especially juxtaposed with animal collective

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:01 PM (eleven years ago)

I saw them open for AC at that same webster hall show . I'll be seeing Vampire Weekend headline MSG later this year . I don't even know the last time i wanted to listen to AC. crazy!