Required reading: The VenusZine review (not mine)Required prereq listening: Graceland -- one of my favorite records of all time. (Christ, it just occurred to me that there are people who will think of Elvis' home before they think of Paul Simon's record).
1. Their name is about the worst mismatch for their sound that I have ever encountered.
2. They confirm that I chose to attend the wrong Ivy League School. But I have that thought about five times a day. I sincerely hope that it is not the last thing I think when I die.
3. Their music conjures up what I thought college would be like, but wasn't, straight out of The Preppy Handbook . If this is khaki-core (Matt Siblo, did you coin this term? Google seems to think so), then I say bring me more, and get me a Bloody Mary while you are at it. The music is so upbeat without being vapid and the band generates this feeling of happiness. It kind of makes me ache inside.
4. My current favorite track is "Oxford Comma" -- I feel like a giddy school girl, "who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?" It's like they are singing to me. Would that I were 15 years younger...
5. This is a record that sounds pretty good to me now, but I suspect that in two months I will be completely unable to listen to it, which is right around the time Cary will start to think it's great.
Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma"
P.S. This is my 200th post.
P.P.S.
According to Stereogum, they also played at Other Music today:
Sadly my day did not include running out to any in-store performances of up-and-coming indie rockers, but I did go out and buy some eggs.
4 comments:
Happy 200!
Here's to 200 more!
I love that Cape Cod Wow Wow Wubzy song. I have my Sirius radio programmed to beep at me whenever VW comes on.
Congrats on the 200th post. I've had the Vampire Weekend record for three weeks now and have not really listened to it. There is so much hype it makes me kind of not want to listen to it (like Clap Your Hands). And Graceland... a perfect album.
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