Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City Vinyl Review

Yes this is a more grown up album.

Vampire weekend modern vampires of the city vinyl review.

Is rich ear candy loaded with helplessness and crisis. Modern vampires of the city is vampire weekend s third album and it is a bustling world of voices and visions from the death of henry hudson to the orthodox girl falling in love at an uptown falafel shop from hannah hunt tearing up the new york times on a distant beach to the lethal chandelier of everlasting arms from the ardent yearning of don t lie to the harmonized voice of hope in young lion. It moves forward from their previous albums contra and s t without moving to far away from what made the band so popular in the first place. That said the vinyl pressings have thus far been absolute rubbish.

Modern vampires of the city the band s first record in over three years can still fit into the privilege narrative but to force it obfuscates how the record is both bolder and more considered. Modern vampires of the city is for me vampire weekend s best album. Everything sounds a little bit more polished and the production quality is great. Every copy i ve played and i ve gone through about six on multiple players has had a distinctive hiss in the left channel.

It largely trades in the africa inspired giddiness of their first two records. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2013 vinyl release of modern vampires of the city on discogs. Everything sounds a little bit more polished and the production quality is great. The truly mature modern vampires of the city however is a big departure charting the perils and pleasures of adulthood with impressive singular range.

As wise cracking uniformly attired moppets slumming in a lower weight class consider this vampire weekend s rubber soul the definitive statement of a group now assured enough to start. It moves forward from their previous albums contra and s t without moving to far away from what made the band so popular in the first place. Vampire weekend s modern california pop masterpiece father of the bride the first album in six years from ezra koenig and co.