Vampire Weekend, live at Trinity Summer Series in Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Six years on from Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend have returned with Father of the Bride, a sprawling double album which finds singer Ezra Koenig trying to find his voice since the departure of Rostam Batmanglij (Rostam) from the band. When the New York outfit first appeared in 2008, they owed their unique sound to a mix of classical, African and western pop influences – never before had a combination of harpsichord, strings, bass, and drums sounded as good as it did on ‘M79’. This evidently was largely due to Rostam, the band’s multi-instrumentalist who has since taken…
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Adding to the likes of New Order & Paul Weller in the already-stellar Trinity Summer Series, Vampire Weekend are set to play the Dublin College on July 1. This news follows the January release of ‘Harmony Hall’ and ‘2021’ taken from their forthcoming new album, Father of the Bride, set to come out this spring. Tickets go on sale from Ticketmaster this Friday, February 15 at 9am.
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London’s favourite masked DJ Aaron Jerome, aka SBTRKT has unveiled an eccentric new track, featuring Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, called ‘New Dorp, New York’. The debut track from the producer’s much anticipated sophomore album Wonder Where We Land follows 2011’s much-lauded SBTRKT, an album that brought artists such as Sampha and Jessie Ware much-deserved exposure, as well as refining his tense, minimal post-dubstep into something that has been emulated ever since. This new track is even more bubbly and noisy than ever, with Ezra Koenig’s rambling lyricism adding a modest pop flavour to the song. Listen to ‘New Dorp, New York’ below. The new album…
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Ever since Vampire Weekend poked their heads above the sub-Libertines dross of late-noughties indie they have always seemed several steps ahead of their peers. The self-titled debut’s hyperactive afro-pop and the genre-bending follow-up Contra established the New York quartet as the thinking fan’s hipsters of choice; their star continuing to ascend even as, one by one, those contemporaries deservedly crashed and burned. Despite this, it would be fair to say that they weren’t universally admired. What was perhaps missing for some amidst all this clever-clever meta-pop mashing of styles was heart: Vampire Weekend were perfectly capable of connecting with the…