27 April 2008
Vampire Weekend
Filed under Media
I’m probably late to the party, but I LOVE the debut album by Vampire Weekend. Echoes of Paul Simon’s “Graceland”, both superficially (borrowing heavily from the themes of African music) and at a deeper level, as something ties each album’s tracks together, some sort of (gasp!) musical forethought.
Maybe I love the album because it’s such a refreshing take on music: every song is just *fun*. The band members have a certain playfulness in their chemistry, and that’s apparent in the music (and in the videos for “Mansard Roof” and “A-Punk”, available on the band’s website). Ezra Koenig’s voice perfectly complements the lyrics he sings: a 20-something singing about love and life in the early 21st-century finally done right. He reminds me of an early Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco fame) at times.
:: Adam