there’s good stuff on here but my least fav of theirs pretty easily
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
For sure. Their least essential album, but it's a better album than when David Byrne turned TH albums into solo projects.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
Guess who.
Composer-vocalist Ezra Koenig (age 35) takes the idea of emotional reparation in “Sympathy” from one of Britain’s great post-punk bands, New Order, who revolutionized politicized dance pop in the Eighties and Nineties (with such devout political recordings as “Temptation,” “True Faith,” and “Technique”). Here, Vampire Weekend echoes New Order’s versatility, rhythmic ingenuity, and its romantic-social undercurrent. It’s what, in less fragmented times, was once called “folk music” but now for an era when the term “folk” needs to be redefined.
That endeavor gives the 58-minute Father of the Bride its surprise, excitement, and grandeur. Over 18 tracks, Koenig and company work through the sophistication that defeats us, experimenting with assorted song styles — plus high-information worldliness — without losing the insouciance of their eponymous 2007 debut. Initially known for their preppy eclecticism, Vampire Weekend expands into miscellany as never before. The group’s signature audacious Afropop (a cheeky, bright, guitar-based cross-culturalism) blends into melodies that are closer to home — and so it seems quirky to audiences who are unaccustomed to what used to be classic and traditional.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Haha I guessed that but figured “nah, he’s a movie critic.”
― DJI, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
This is an exceptional album you guys.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
exceptionally long
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
it's not even that long
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
i agree that it's exceptional, though my experience with it after the first couple months has been through repeating my favorite tracks and re-listening to the livestream of the MSG show that I attended (the show was exceptionally long, it's true)
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
"This Life" is among their best. I get euphoric listening to it, and since May I've walked around in public spaces singing Danielle Haim's CHEATIN' ON CHEATIN' ON ME
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
all the Haim duets are great. I really came round to the opening track
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
when I cut out
10. "My Mistake" 11. "Sympathy" 12. "Sunflower" (featuring Steve Lacy) 13. "Flower Moon" (featuring Steve Lacy)
I enjoy the album more
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
it is long. but it's consistent. I don't think there are many dull or insubstantial moments. it's packed full of melodies, stuffed with ideas, and it does everything with gusto
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
aside from a few tracks, the arrangements let this album down imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
what do you not like about them, just out of interest?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
the album feels both bloated with songs and not fully-formed bc the arrangements feel like temporary sketches, essentially. hard to point to a single thing, there's a rickety and empty quality that carries through, maybe most exemplified by "rich man," or how for instance i can sorta tell that "jerusalem, new york, berlin" is a well-written song but it just sits in place. i get people finding this charming but it's what makes it pale in comparison to the other vw records for me
"bambina" and "this life" are fuckin sick though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
the songs on here were definitely created with the live show in mind. they're less "composed," arranged on record with the intent give the band more room to breathe in a live setting--J,NY,B is a good example. the negative space allows the players to play in a way that they're not beholden to playing a line of melody that the audience knows by heart. i agree, brad, that the strength in composition isn't as present in the arrangements in these songs (this was what rostam most notably brought to the table), but i think the bones of the songs on this one are very, very strong and it allows them to get away with sparser arrangements.
i agree about rich man. it goes nowhere (tho i do like that ukulele figure enough that the repetition doesn't drive me mad).
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
OH CHRIST
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
put me in the 'it's charming' camp. I love the arrangements. this album makes their earlier stuff feel sophomoric by comparison
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
like, I'm starting to come round to the idea that everything on this album has been thought-through and some of the more jarring choices are very deliberate (even down to the front cover)
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
re: their earlier stuff feeling at all sophomoric compared to this record: can't follow you there, the arrangements on contra are like dense and intricate music boxes of detail and are the reason it's one of my favorite records of the last decade
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
I'm the last person to praise Contra as a headphone album but there it is
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
could write a paragraph just about the number of amazing things going on in "run" alone
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
song is like a fucking dub remix of itself
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
in a sense it plays as a vaporwave record yet destroys the genre
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
top 5 vw songs would be "this life" and whatever 4 songs are my favourites from contra at the moment
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
Uh oh, I never liked this band, but I started listening to Time Crisis and I'm getting Stockholm syndrome, or rather I started liking this particular album after listening to the ep that goes through all the songs.
I'm into the more stripped-down Americana/Tiny Desk vibe + interesting production touches, not so much the bigger pop songs. I'll have to make my playlist version of the record since it seems like that's the thing to do.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
Can one listen to Time Crisis without an Apple Music sun? Cause that track-by-track pod sounds relevant to my interests
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
I found it on Google podcasts, but I think someone is 'unofficially' uploading them
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
I'm almost with you. i never liked this band and now i kind of want to like them because i like ezra from listening to this podcast
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
(i guess it's technically not a podcast)
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
somebody uploads time crisis to mediafire (lol) on this tumblr: https://timecrisis-withezrakoenig.tumblr.com/
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:36 (four years ago) link
Glad it's not just me, lol. Ok here is my Sunday morning version of this record, which went over pretty well with my partner who also never liked VW:
Hold You NowHarmony HallBig BlueHow LongUnbearably WhiteRich ManMarried in a Gold RushMy Mistake2021Spring SnowJerusalem, NY, Berlin
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Every double album is too long: I treat this as a kind of miscellany.
(But I definitely wouldn't include My Mistake or Spring Snow on my single disc cut!)
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 08:32 (four years ago) link
I probably wouldn't either, and I would include Stranger. Maybe it's sappy, but to me it's really effectively sappy in a "This Must Be the Place" kind of way.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
Oh my playlist wasn't meant to be a best-of, just the ones that are appropriate for sipping coffee and doing crosswords on a Sunday morning without ruining the vibe.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Oh, that makes sense. Maybe I'll try it out next Sunday morning.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
this is me firing shots, primarily at dog latin
VW rereleased Father of the Bride and made it even more unbearable pic.twitter.com/nukazHvA6E— DJP (@djperry1973) February 28, 2020
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
I'm here what's going on
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 29 February 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
might buy the vinyl this weekend and play it and think about you DJP
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 29 February 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
Have you listened to this Jude Law nonsense yet?
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Saturday, 29 February 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I suppose it comes from his anime series in which J. Law plays a robot valet.Nothing wrong with that !
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 29 February 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Worst album, still good.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
i think a lot of the underwhelmed response to father of the bride is viewing it in light of what it fails to do which the first three albums did well. which is unfair, because it's not trying to do those things. instead it has this chill late night studio head vibe going on, which i also find special in its own way.
― Josh (phantompenguin), Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
Sorry to post a link to Fallon...https://youtu.be/fY6nvPvqpZc
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
This is an exceptional album you guys.― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, January 6, 2020 4:19 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, January 6, 2020 4:19 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Still is. There's so much to love about it. Hoping people will disinter this one day and hold it up as an absolute classic.
'I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die' has taken on new meaning recently.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
thankfully that lyric is also on an album that's better than this one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
lol sorry i'm just being a jerk for fun dl
mvotc is better than fotb, but finger back is not better than this life
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
that’s basically true but do you mean harmony hall
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
d'oh, yes i do.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link