Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

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+

more open-shirted Ezra, please

Alfred, please, he’s a married man.

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.

o. nate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2PLEUlOuM

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.

He looks like a fratboy and a nerd at the same time.

Also has some man/boy features to his face... like some greek statue.

video is worth it for the shot of ariel rechtshaid using a vibraslap

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.

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 !

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.

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...

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c7fed805cd269479978da50/master/pass/VWCover.jpg

hideous

That can't be real

is Sony Music the title?

jfc

Wow

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?

honestly the kerning/font size of the album title is the most offensive thing to me here

ahah the super basic/lo-fi earth picture.
the cover has a 80s world music style though.

Can't get the two new songs to stream yet :(

they seem to be here https://www.stereogum.com/2034317/vampire-weekend-sunflower-feat-steve-lacy-big-blue/music/

They’re on spotify

"Big Blue" is great. "Sunflower" sounds like a B-side.

The production on « Sunflower » is pretty low-fi too !

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...

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

i think this release strategy was a bad idea

these are fun imo

these are ok and i like "big blue" a fair amount but they're both pretty weird single choices

they’re clearly having fun w the rollout and not taking it too seriously. im here for vdubs‘ dgaf era

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

English, please?

I like both songs, short and nice! I think this is gonna be my kind of album, except for the cover

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

Ugh they’ve never been particularly interesting in their artwork, but I hate that album cover.

"biggest mood possible"

Looks like The Simple Truth-era Chris de Burgh

Or a 1991 Simple Minds remix album

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

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

(life is good brand clothes, tevas, fonts on the first wave of organic products, environmentalism, jam bands etc)

adbusters magazine

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?