Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

This new song I do like.

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.

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 !

haha

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

Oh man, I cannot get behind the vocals on this at all

I'm sitting here cringing and thinking "dude you could take this down a whole step, it would be fine"

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

Sunflower cover > sunflower by vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T62P7pBEEs

the extended live version of big blue is really nice

djp is right about ezra's vocals but the cover is still amazing

https://www.stereogum.com/2037965/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-details-a-hans-zimmer-palestine-danielle-haim/news/

Also a song called "Unbearably White".

Oh, 3 new tracks this week !
Then the album will be released next month, right ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIGNNOZ0948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkBjoY7eyvU

"this life" is great, my favourite single so far. kinda has tusk vibes? "unbearably white" is quite nice too. the looser sound they've adopted on this sound is a good fit

*on this album

Harmony Hall is my favorite song they've ever done.

Sunflower is far and away my favorite of these new tracks.

just scanned the thread, and it seems like i'm in a pretty small minority on that opinion.
Hey, it's definitely the least boring. Need to look into this steve lacy character.

yeah i can't stand that song and i like these guys

just scanned the thread, and it seems like i'm in a pretty small minority on that opinion.
Hey, it's definitely the least boring. Need to look into this steve lacy character.

― enochroot, Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:18 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i was like steve lacy?? that would be a big get considering he died in 2004

two new songs are good

Steve Lacy (new, not dead) is great and that's my favorite too.

But I do hate when young producers have or adopt the same name as old jazz dudes (see also Bob Moses, Richard Davis, etc).

Both of the new songs are fantastic.

i feel like on "this life" he really brings it full circle and assumes the guise of millennial paul simon

The chords on This Life are making me smile. Love it.

"this life" is really really good

love lacys vocals on roll burbank funk from last year

This album actually sounds exactly like its cover. I feel that if this had come out in 1993 or something it would have been massive (proto "adult alternative" if you will). Also, I never managed to get into the last album's stuffy preciousness so I really love how loose and airy this sounds.

really big into these two songs straight away

The two new songs are great !
good strategy to release a good single, then a crappy one and then, right before the album, two great songs.
They both remind me of other songs but I haven't really found out which ones, yet.
Anyway, they're instantly catchy and it feels like you already know them, which is a good sign !

Btw, I'm so relieved 'Unbearably White' is about too much snowfall.

So Danielle Haim makes all the vocal harmonies on the album apparently ?

xp :D

The guitar pattern in the verses of "Unbearably White" clearly reminds me of a song... I know it. But I can't put my finger on it. It's driving me crazy !

it's unspeakably white

does it not sound pretty similar to blood orange negro swan? thats what i immediately heard.

er, charcoal baby rather.

I hope they have hacky sacks at the tour merch stand.

About "This is Life": this is more like it.

“this life” is exactly the song I wanted them to make

yes enjoyed these two songs

i think all 6 songs are of similar quality. looking forward to the album

yeah all 6 are good imo this band is good

I mean I still don’t really ‘get’ “sunflower” but it’s short

been listening to these in order on apple music cuz you can play a partial album and i don't see how this album is any less than very good

these songs have improved upon further listening. both absolutely great. my faves so far.

Yeah these last two are probably the best of what has been released so far. The past single was pretty bad imho.

tracklist is here at last:

Hold You Now (feat. Danielle Haim)
Harmony Hall
Bambina
This Life
Big Blue
How Long?
Unbearably White
Rich Man
Married in a Gold Rush (feat. Danielle Haim)
My Mistake
Sympathy
Sunflower (feat. Steve Lacy)
Flower Moon (feat. Steve Lacy)
2021
We Belong Together (feat. Danielle Haim)
Stranger
Spring Snow
Jerusalem, New York, Berlin

It’s kinda weird that D. Haim is SO present on this album. Is there a specific reason ? Are there other examples of an artist being all over another’s album without it being a duet/collab album ?

she dates ariel rechtshaid who appears to have co-produced the album