Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

i like "big blue" a lot ... a little psychy and twangy. i remember ezra saying he was influenced by seeing a kacey musgraves show & tho i thought that was prob bullshit i can kinda see it here. "sunflower" feels a little...... jaunty to me in a way that perhaps pushes the irony a little too far. i do like the lyrics a lot tho.

none of these 4 songs have blown me away -- 2021 is pretty sick tho -- but i do think they're doing some cool things productionwise on these songs... they still sound like vampire weekend but are all over the place in a lot of ways & have a certain depth that has been building throughout their discog. i think the album will be good.

https://turn5.scene7.com/is/image/Turn5/J128532?wid=810&hei=608

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i think they’re (wisely) saving the major slammers for the album

jordan otm although it irks me to think of them surrounded by label managers helping them pick the perfect peace frog t shirt from ebay for the upcoming tour or w/e

idk man if you listen to his time crisis radio show ezra's pretty deep in this shit

i love harmony hall but hvaent gotten into any of the others yet

think i'll just wait for the record at this point

"Big Blue" is a nice ballad. "Sunflower" eh... let's say I agree with "pretty weird single choices" !

Is "Big Blue" meant to be a minute and a half long or is it a truncated version that was put up on Spotify?

That album cover is dorky af but 100% fits the aesthetic. Like it looks like the logo for an 80s benefit concert headlined by Paul Simon, Sting and Peter Gabriel with some touring world music acts further down the bill for the boomers to drink and talk through.

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― flopson, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, no, *Utne Reader*

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The album cover is just as half-assed at evoking the aesthetic y’all are (accurately) name-checking, as these two songs are when it comes to evoking their apparent musical touchpoints. Actual crunchy Phish/jamband dudes in an East Coast college in 1992 might nod and say “ok, cool” if you played these tunes for them, but wouldn’t give them a second listen.

Saw this via a Hipinion thread about FOTB:

https://www.are.na/blog/the-global-village-coffeehouse-aesthetic

Also apparently Ezra recently interviewed the designer of the Jokerman font:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/b2/aa/e3b2aa2fdbf0ac15653a1b0c11b8cb9c.png

All of this to me is more interesting than the new VW music.

Actual crunchy Phish/jamband dudes in an East Coast college in 1992 might nod and say “ok, cool” if you played these tunes for them, but wouldn’t give them a second listen.

is that supposed to be a bad thing....

Third time listening to “sunflower” and I’ve decided I actively hate it and it might be the most annoying VW song ever, and this is coming from a band with a certain amount of those.

I was very much into their last album and was really anticipating this new one but these 4 songs released so far are weak as fuck

they don't have a bad song

Taking the Global Village Coffeehouse discussion to a new thread

lol zabar's, barney greengrass and jerry seinfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKDesEcDrcc

this song reminds me of Vulfpeck

That's a VERY annoying video !
Like when a kid starts using a camera and finds it "interesting" to turn it all around...
indeed lol Seinfeld.

And in this case the kid is Jonah Hill.

split screen + constant rotation is also like a kid using ALL the effects on the camera at once !

So apparently Jonah Hill is not ready to direct a movie...

he already did

this song reminds me of Vulfpeck

― mizzell, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:22 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh yeah it does

xpost really ? what movie did he direct ?

aw ok I just checked and his movie hasn't been released in France, yet...

Well, video is as annoying as the song.

Sunflower sounds neutered, incomplete, and thin. A rather boring tune from a band who could rarely be described as such.

My first impression of Sunflower was that it reminded me of The Stepkids, but Vulfpeck works as well.

Vulfpeck comparison is otm, I like how stripped back and casual it is though. Don't like any of the others.

(lol Seinfeld)

I'm kind of into Vampire Weekend leading a baggy revival

djp! :)

This new song I do like.

I tried to listen to "Sunflowers" again.
It definitely has an earworm (but still annoying) quality and the verses are not so bad.
But the vocal/instrumental riff is trash (and the production is weak).
Arguably, their worst single to date.

As a double album buried track it would be ok, I suppose.
But it's as if the Beatles had released "Wild Honey Pie" as a single !

haha

VW covered the other Sunflower for Radio 1 (mixing some of their own sunflower in there): https://soundcloud.com/neonreggaesunsplash/vampire-weekend-sunflower-post-malone-swae-lee-cover-bbcr1-via-teamvampireweekendcom

very pretty, and kinda disconcerting how much ezra sounds like swae lee, or at least how easily swae's cadence from that song fits so well with ezra's a-punk-era vocal patter

Oh man, I cannot get behind the vocals on this at all

I'm sitting here cringing and thinking "dude you could take this down a whole step, it would be fine"

idk i don't think it's that different from his vocal mode during the peppier songs from the first two albums, though yes the falsetto part is very rough

Sunflower cover > sunflower by vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T62P7pBEEs

the extended live version of big blue is really nice

djp is right about ezra's vocals but the cover is still amazing

https://www.stereogum.com/2037965/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-details-a-hans-zimmer-palestine-danielle-haim/news/

Also a song called "Unbearably White".

Oh, 3 new tracks this week !
Then the album will be released next month, right ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIGNNOZ0948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkBjoY7eyvU

"this life" is great, my favourite single so far. kinda has tusk vibes? "unbearably white" is quite nice too. the looser sound they've adopted on this sound is a good fit

*on this album

Harmony Hall is my favorite song they've ever done.