i am jazzed for this record
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link
Maybe just me but every time I hear the chorus of Harmony Hall I think it's Jeff Tweedy.
― Evan, Monday, 11 February 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
It's you.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
ready for 2 more songs
― flopson, Monday, 11 February 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
Are they good live?
― Josh (phantompenguin), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
Saw them at Barclays in fall 2013 and they were fucking great. Obviously can't speak for the new lineup but I really loved that show - can't beat this setlist:
CousinsWhite SkyCape Cod Kwassa KwassaDiane YoungUnbelieversHolidayStepHorchataEverlasting ArmsFinger BackCalifornia EnglishA-PunkBoston (Ladies of Cambridge)Ya HeyDon't LieSong 2 (Blur cover)CampusOxford CommaGiving Up the GunObvious Bicycle---Hannah HuntOne (Blake's Got a New Face)Walcott
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
so they played all their songs lol
― k3vin k., Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
haha almost! no problem for me, they don't have a bad song imo. would've loved to have heard Bryn tho but I can't complain.
Sky Ferreira and Solange opened. I got there for SF and there were maybe 300 people in the whole arena. this was a month before Night Time, My Time came out. she was great, I saw her perform again two months later to a rapturous sold out 9:30 Club. Barclays crowd was still kinda thin during Solange but VW packed it, pretty sure they sold it out.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
Saw them in 2008, 2011, 2012, each time fantastic, even in 2008 when I was scowling at the idea of "Vampire Weekend" seconds before they went on stage.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 February 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
I love that they’ve kept the same stupid name this whole time
― flopson, Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:18 (five years ago) link
Each time I listen to "Harmony Hall" I like it about twice as much as I did before, and I've listened to it 5 times so I'm really high on it right now
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 February 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
I haven't caught up with the thread yet, but I just heard the single for the first time and I'm assuming I'm not the first to comment that it sounds like Paul Simon fronting Happy Mondays. And yet it works! (Or, alternatively, of course it works.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
yeah this is one hell of a grower
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
yeah, it's similar to "step" in that way for me, which i was mystified by when i first heard it (souls of mischief?), but it eventually fell into place.
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
I mean, a lot of people are saying "this song sounds great despite recalling the corny piano work of Movin' On Up and Bittersweet Symphony and etc." but I still unironically love that stuff so this is pretty much hitting the spot for me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Bittersweet Symphony has pianos?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
oh maybe not but it does that same kinda thing with the chords rising and falling, i'm not a music theorist maaaaaaaaan
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkTVMMkCP4
― mizzell, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
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