Ezra's pancakes look delicious.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
The lyrics seem a bit nothingy by Koenig standards, and the recycling of the "I don't want to live like this..." line is distracting. But musically it sounds pretty nice. B+
― o. nate, Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
more open-shirted Ezra, please
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
Alfred, please, he’s a married man.
― o. nate, Saturday, 23 February 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
These guys are ironically kind of cool in how effortless and disinterested they are about being cool. They are making dadrock, nay grandparock at this point and it’s so sincere that you can’t bring it down.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 February 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
o. nate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2PLEUlOuM
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
I can't fully explain it but I am really creeped out by Ezra Koenig, it's a very visceral reaction. I don't know why but I get very passive-aggressive vibes from him, like he's unerringly nice but actually a shit. maybe he just reminds me of some asshole I knew in college. I can't pin it down. I actually listened to this band for a few years before I even saw a photo or video of him, and someone afterward it hasn't been the same. I recognize this is irrational.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:09 (five years ago) link
He looks like a fratboy and a nerd at the same time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
Also has some man/boy features to his face... like some greek statue.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
video is worth it for the shot of ariel rechtshaid using a vibraslap
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
Koenig definitely carries himself like a person who’s never had a single bad thing happen to him in his entire life, I understand how that could be unnerving.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 23 February 2019 05:02 (five years ago) link
Ah ! I’m not sure about this video but that vibraslap shot is great indeed ! The shirtless/hairy chest is disturbing though. A hairy rock aspect that doesn’t compute with his clean/pop image or something !
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 23 February 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
By the way, if it’s a couple of new tracks each month, we should be close to getting new ones within a few days.
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 23 February 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
And also about that video, at first I was expected him to start making sushis or some other japanese cooking like in the cooking scene in Isle of Dogs. Maybe because of the initial japanese influence around the album...
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 23 February 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c7fed805cd269479978da50/master/pass/VWCover.jpg
hideous
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
That can't be real
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
is Sony Music the title?
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
jfc
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
Wow
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
so i guess they decided to have a purposefully butt-ugly cover as a joke? commentary? on how stylish all of their previous covers have been?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
honestly the kerning/font size of the album title is the most offensive thing to me here
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
ahah the super basic/lo-fi earth picture.the cover has a 80s world music style though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Can't get the two new songs to stream yet :(
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
they seem to be here https://www.stereogum.com/2034317/vampire-weekend-sunflower-feat-steve-lacy-big-blue/music/
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
They’re on spotify
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
"Big Blue" is great. "Sunflower" sounds like a B-side.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
The production on « Sunflower » is pretty low-fi too !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
These two songs sound more like album tracks than singles and the production is nowhere near « harmony hall ». I might miss the lush production approach of Rostam...
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
find it really hard to feel anything about any of the songs released so far except that "sunflower" seems bad
i know y'all love "harmony hall," it's cool
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
i think this release strategy was a bad idea
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
these are fun imo
― flopson, Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
these are ok and i like "big blue" a fair amount but they're both pretty weird single choices
― ufo, Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
they’re clearly having fun w the rollout and not taking it too seriously. im here for vdubs‘ dgaf era
― flopson, Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:44 (five years ago) link
For anyone who bought compilation CDs in longboxes in the late 1980s, the cover of the new @vampireweekend album is the BIGGEST MOOD POSSIBLE. pic.twitter.com/VTLtyqIapr— Andy Greenwald (@andygreenwald) March 6, 2019
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link
English, please?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 March 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
I like both songs, short and nice! I think this is gonna be my kind of album, except for the cover
― Vinnie, Thursday, 7 March 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link
whoa, finally listened to these new songs and they fucking rule. Much more excited about them and this album than HH & 2021. which I thought were fine, but these songs confirm my suspicions this is going to be a double album in spirit, discursive and messy, mannered but much more relaxed, 'dgaf' Is otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 March 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
Ugh they’ve never been particularly interesting in their artwork, but I hate that album cover.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 March 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
"biggest mood possible"
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2019 11:32 (five years ago) link
Looks like The Simple Truth-era Chris de Burgh
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 7 March 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
Or a 1991 Simple Minds remix album
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
idk the visual aesthetic they're referencing in this stuff is pretty obvious to me... i guess ezra & i are roughly the same age and prob grew up around a lot of the same ppl (upper middle class suburban jews) but ironic riffing on the iconography of boomer hippies-turned-settled down adults and their kids (life is good brand clothes, tevas, fonts on the first wave of organic products, environmentalism, jam bands etc) is pretty in the sweet spot of the kind of social milieu this band has always occupied itself with
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
https://turn5.scene7.com/is/image/Turn5/J128532?wid=810&hei=608
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
(life is good brand clothes, tevas, fonts on the first wave of organic products, environmentalism, jam bands etc)
adbusters magazine
― flopson, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
i think they’re (wisely) saving the major slammers for the album
― flopson, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
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
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
idk man if you listen to his time crisis radio show ezra's pretty deep in this shit
― just sayin, Friday, 8 March 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
i love harmony hall but hvaent gotten into any of the others yet
think i'll just wait for the record at this point
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 March 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
"Big Blue" is a nice ballad. "Sunflower" eh... let's say I agree with "pretty weird single choices" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 8 March 2019 09:03 (five years ago) link