Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

By yacht rock do you mean Steely Dan, Doobie Bros, Hall & Oates? Because this doesn't seem like a modern day equivalent of that to me.

they're certainly not oblivious to their privileged status, i'll give you that

Dan S: Not really. When I think "yacht rock," I think of Benny Mardones, Firefall, and Elvin Bishop, among others.

There's a bazillion threads on ILX identifying (and praising) yacht-rockers.

i dunno horchata is not as good as oxford comma or m79, neat arrangement notwithstanding. while ill agree that the unreconstructed punk rock dismissal of them is lame i can't help but wonder if there isn't a counter to that, people patting themselves on the back for 'getting it' or something and then elevating their music to some level of 'pop genius' that it really isn't -- it's just too relentlessly consonant and major key.

but when you look at it in context their debut was one of the best albums of 2008, or at least one of the most memorable. i wish the melody of horchata wasn't so repetitive because the arrangement is cool. but the new one should be good, and probably well-timed and marketed.

my fav song of theirs might still be "boston"

haha, didn't expect that coming from u - it is one of their best songs, i was ;_; that it didn't make the album

haha yeah the leak i downloaded 20 months ago or whenever had that song on it - wasnt til months later that i learned the song didnt really exist

cuz when you left myyy room
to go to the kiiiitchen, i imagined that you were dead
a morbid streak ruuuns through
the whole of my faaaam'ly

seriously, I've always felt like "Love Plus One" is surely the biggest historical precedent for them in general

This is funny. I was thinking of Lloyd Cole as some sort of hidden influence, myself.

pfork revu

Okay, I kind of like this band now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnR-97_BGsU&feature=player_embedded

I can even play the guitar part. Sort of.

I never really listened to them until a couple requested that song for their wedding that I DJ'd so I downloaded the album and now I find I listen to it all the time.

that's pretty much how it goes.

"cousins" is fun

http://www.mtvu.com/video/?vid=454602

"cousins" is great

video/song is straight up
http://www.mtv.com/videos/they-might-be-giants/299742/dont-lets-start.jhtml

"cousins" is dope imo

easily their best song

naw

uh huh

"cousins" is fine

it's definitely their most 'rawk', not that that means best or anything

i miss burt_stanton

this song is okay, maybe a bit too jokey or cartooney? especially the "i can feel it co-omin." not that they weren't cartooney on the first album, but this feels kind of silly.

they were always pretty silly

ya i take that all back. i've come around to totally liking this song in the last two hours. and the video is great, too.

i wonder if anything is gonna grab me like cape cod kwassa kwass did last time

Cape Cod and A-Punk left me cold but when I got around to hearing more of the album I learned I liked them.

cousins -
i like the fast guitar and drums playing but i hate (the) ska

Contra is now streaming on their My Space page:

http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend

"White Sky" sounds so much like Graceland era Paul Simon with a South African mbaqanga band.

cousins is seriously good.

Stereogum Premature Evaluation

it's not as good :(

took me the better part of a year to come around to the first one. maybe this will be the same?

I do like Cousins, and generally I like the more muscular sound of some of these tracks. I'm still not crazy about the vocals but they're slightly less wispy here.

cd rip on what fyi

gon' buy the hell out of this in 8 days

the 320 rip has leaked, going to listen to that right now.

I'm going to the United Artists' show! Any of you guys gonna be there?

amazing album once again

I hate the sound of his voice on the last coupla tracks, especially "Contra."

"White Sky" is a thing of beauty though.

the last few tracks are a bit too SECOND ALBUMS but i kind of like his crooning.

like "horchata" the whole affair is a bit ridiculous but people always took them way too seriously anyway. the lil jon lyric should've been hint enough right off the bat

can't wait for "omg everyone CHECK IT OUT!!!! i got CONTRA ON VINYL!!!!!" thread

cover is super dope imo - quite likely better than anything within

whatup morbs

also interesting

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/the-artful-dodgers-santigold-vampire-weekend.html

I'm more looking forward to hearing the new Santogold than the new Vampire Weekend, tbh.

digging 'Run'

I'm really liking some of this on first listen.