Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Vampire Weekend
Free Music Review: The New Cure
Hit: 5 Stars
Loved this album. Felt like the second coming of The Cure.
Well.. Paul Simon meets Cure.
Free Music Review: refreshing
Hit: 5 Stars
Following the sudden popularity of a previously unknown group come two crowds: one proclaiming it to be genius, and another denouncing it as garbage. I honestly think the latter is the trendier position in cases like this.
But why have Vampire Weekend struck gold all of a sudden? Are they breathtakingly original or groundbreaking? Are they music's Next Michael Jordan? I don't really think so, but you have to look at the environment at the time they broke out, and it must be true that VW gave us something we were starved for from other bands. I think it might be the jubilance of the African-style guitar work and their use of good melody-driven songs, and it stands out against a lot of bands that are bland by comparison, just moody and atmospheric and basically the antithesis of this band. I love it, I think it's fun and interesting and good music. I'm hesitant to call it too original because it's so derivitave of African and Carribean styles, but it's certainly refreshing.
And maybe now we'll get overloaded with world-music over-happy music like this, and then along will come some moody droner and at that place and time, he'll be the breath of fresh air. And following him will come the trendy worshipers and even trendier denouncers.
Free Music Review: fun and infectious pop
Hit: 4 Stars
easy and fun to listen to. Long time since I heard something I wanted to listen to more than once.Free Music Review: Less than stellar
Hit: 3 Stars
As much as I love this band's originality, with scores of harpsichords, organs and violins, the debut release of Vampire Weekend is somewhat disappointing.
The album starts unspectacularly, with some weird disco/techno groove. As much as I love the orchestration, I spent most of the time wishing that there was a louder bass line.
In fact, there is almost no bass in the opening songs until the third track, "A-Punk." Even then, I'm still wishing that there was some sort of cool guitar solo to make up for the bass line. Even The White Stripes knew to add some wacky keyboard solos or guitar feedback to jazz up their bare-bones recordings.
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" might have sounded good in the 70s or 80s, in the time of the Talking Heads. However, it still sounds a little too primitive for my tastes. And it doesn't help that there is a nearly non-existant bass line.
And these opening songs make the album disappointing, unfortunately. They show some brilliant orchestration in the songs "M79" and "I Stand Corrected." And I really liked the cute harpsichord touches in "One (Blake's Got a New Face)", with cool vocals that might have come from an album by The Police, shot by machine-gun speed guitar strums afterwards.
As much as I love Vampire Weekend, I wasn't too impressed with this release. Amazon may have said that this is an improvement on the Talking Heads album, "Remain in Light", but I highly doubt it.
Free Music Review: A Stand-Out
Hit: 4 Stars
Indie has recently become huge, and there are many new indie bands who either make a bang, or just failed to start with. And many big bands are indie-for-the-sake-of-being-indie bands. It's weird music, and nothing more. Vampire Weekend made me blink a few times before I could actually appreciate them. They did something different, but didn't make you turn grey. It's intelligent indie-pop, that's suitably for a Sunday afternoon, Friday Night party, or anything. It can fit in every aspect of your life, and that's a good thing.
Some tracks have violin sections reminiscent of Arcade Fire, and some drumming might take you back to Paul Simon's "Graceland". Other than that, nothing else is relatable. They truly have an original sound. A few of my favorites were Oxford Comma, Cape Cod Kwassa, Walcott, and Campus.
I think that everyone should try out Vampire Weekend, because I believe that it has something for everyone, except maybe metalheads... I'm truly looking forward for their next album. Keep it up mates!