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- Genres: Alternative
- Released: Jan 27,2008
Album Review
It would take a lot for Vampire Weekend's debut to rise above the stench of privileged hype that surrounds it. A bunch of kids who formed the band in their Columbia dorm room borrow wholesale from Afrobeat and angular '80s stuff, and they quickly become an online buzz band before releasing a single album? Thankfully the record, and the band, are great fun: playful, pop-wise, and smart enough to pull their shtick off with aplomb. Organ and drums are often the focal point of the music, bringing to mind a goofier, happier Clinic (if that group's record-collecting habits were more scattershot). On the excellently named (and better sounding) "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," Vampire Weekend asks, "Does it feel so unnatural / To Peter Gabriel too?," immediately disarming--with self-aware brazenness--any criticism of their pomo/postcolonialist borrowing of "ethnic" music. It's clear that these dudes have not only inherited the nerd-rock omnivore's mantle from the Talking Heads, they've actually and already improved upon it.
Rank #7 of The Top 50 Albums of 2008 by Pitchfork Staff
Full review.
Track List
01 Mansard Roof
02 Oxford Comma
03 A-Punk
04 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
05 M79
06 Campus
07 Bryn
08 One (Blake's Got a New Face)
09 I Stand Corrected
10 Walcott
11 The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
Digital Booklet - Vampire Weekend
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/46JMVwV/Vampire Weekend_ultimate-itunes-music.blogspot.com.rar
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