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
Is "Big Blue" meant to be a minute and a half long or is it a truncated version that was put up on Spotify?
― . (Michael B), Friday, 8 March 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 March 2019 10:29 (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, March 7, 2019 4:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flopson, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, no, *Utne Reader*
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link
Santa Cruz Organic sodas
― flopson, Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
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....
― flopson, Saturday, 9 March 2019 06:15 (five years ago) link
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
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 9 March 2019 07:33 (five years ago) link
they don't have a bad song
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
Taking the Global Village Coffeehouse discussion to a new thread
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 11 March 2019 09:11 (five years ago) link
lol zabar's, barney greengrass and jerry seinfeldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKDesEcDrcc
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
this song reminds me of Vulfpeck
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
And in this case the kid is Jonah Hill.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
split screen + constant rotation is also like a kid using ALL the effects on the camera at once !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
So apparently Jonah Hill is not ready to direct a movie...
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
he already did
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
― mizzell, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:22 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ugh yeah it does
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
xpost really ? what movie did he direct ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
aw ok I just checked and his movie hasn't been released in France, yet...
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Well, video is as annoying as the song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
Sunflower sounds neutered, incomplete, and thin. A rather boring tune from a band who could rarely be described as such.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
My first impression of Sunflower was that it reminded me of The Stepkids, but Vulfpeck works as well.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
Vulfpeck comparison is otm, I like how stripped back and casual it is though. Don't like any of the others.
(lol Seinfeld)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of into Vampire Weekend leading a baggy revival
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
djp! :)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
This new song I do like.
― o. nate, Friday, 15 March 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 15 March 2019 08:31 (five years ago) link
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 !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 15 March 2019 08:33 (five years ago) link
haha
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
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
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 March 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
Oh man, I cannot get behind the vocals on this at all
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Thursday, 21 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
I'm sitting here cringing and thinking "dude you could take this down a whole step, it would be fine"
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Thursday, 21 March 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
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
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 March 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Sunflower cover > sunflower by vw
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T62P7pBEEs
the extended live version of big blue is really nice
― ufo, Friday, 22 March 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link