Vampire Weekend is a quartet of Ivy League grads from upper Manhattan that make no attempt to disguise their polo-shirt wearing origins (in the photo to the right please notice the telltale embroidered alligator on Koenig's cardigan).All in all, this album is preppy, poppy, fun... and, in spite of references to French architecture, English grammar and upscale Italian fashion in their lyrics, the thinking man's indie rock this is most definitely not!
Taken at face value this band is awesome and this CD is a great first effort, but (*there's always a but!*) if you start to read up on the band... you end up wanting to smash them in the face with a 2x4... preferably one studded with rusty nails and broken shards of glass.
Let me share with you this pompous quote from the lead singer : "I found this really cool record from Madagascar that I started getting into, and when we started writing songs together as a band, afro-pop became something that we wanted to strive for." Good grief, a record? Seriously? Can you imagine this iZod wearing twat sitting on the front lawn of his summer retreat in the Hamptons grooving out to some contemporary African music on a vintage phonograph -- gimme a break!
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So, does this mean we're not going to their St. Augustine concert?
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