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Free Music Review: Bad Name For a Great New Band
Hit: 5 Stars
Vampire Weekend. Really?
The name alone made me never want to hear this CD. Luckily, I clicked to listen to a sample. The King Sunny Ade-style guitar immediately caught my attention. This could be good, or it could be really pretentious.
Fortunately, upon receiving the album, I found a quartet of college kids who simply love fun music. Vampire Weekend takes their favorite sounds (organ, drums, African guitar), their favorite pop-stylings (reggae, ska, Juju), add some Talking Heads-ish smarty pants lyrics, a dash of Paul Simon in the lead vocals and create truly energetic songs that are surprisingly melodic and well-structured.
In indie-rock, melody-driven material is not easy to come by and more often than not, what meldoy there is usually sounds like an afterthought. But VW puts melody back where it belongs ... in your ear and stuck in the back of your brain for days on end.
As a music listener who has incredibly eclectic tastes, but is also extremely critical, I find myself disappointed by almost every new "hot" band that emerges on the indie market (trust me, I hate most of even the most successful ones like Franz Ferdinand, Strokes My Chemical Romance and The Killers). Vampire Weekend was the first "hyped" release I have heard in years that I actually fell in love with.
Free Music Review: Yeah, I used to like it too....
Hit: 5 Stars
I/m not going to say I loved this band and grew out of it.
I/m not going to say I/m embarassed about liking them.
That/s because what it is, isn/t that this is a bad band,
or a bad album, or they don/t lack talent, it/s just that
you won/t listen to them after a while.
Just like people get sick of most things after a while.
Except, you/ll get sick of them a lot sooner.
Of course, if you haven/t heard this album,
please listen to it. It/s great.
The songs are catchy, and they/ll be all you/ll listen to for awhile.
I liked every song on this album, especially "M79".
That/s why I/m giving it five stars.
The other songs were all fine. I had them stuck in my head for a long time,
but now after all that, I don/t really want to hear them anymore.
Their songs were too good, too catchy.
I remembered every part of the songs.
Now they just don/t interest me anymore.
So:
Get the album
Listen
Enjoy
Enjoy
Enjoy
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Forget about them.
For instance, they/re on my iPod that has limited space, space that could be used for something else. I won/t take them off because I know I like all the songs, but I won/t listen to them often either.
Dig?
Free Music Review: A CD that's actually musical?
Hit: 5 Stars
I picked this CD because my local independent CD store owner suggested it to me. This is how I choose most of my music and I am rarely dissapointed, however I also rarely fall so completely in love with a band as I have with Vampire Weekend.
Having never heard one of their songs I put the record into my stereo expecting some sort of Emo-garage band sound to come out, heavy on the guitars and depressing lyrics (with a name like Vampire Weekend do you blame me?) and light on the melody. Imagine my joy when a melodic sound is emitted from my poor kia's admittably questionably speakers.
It isn't hard to tell that someone in that band studied composition seriously. And the pure variety in the instruments used, for someone like me who grew up with an opera singing mother and a rock obsessed father, it's pure heaven to see a band actually take not only lyrics seriously but the entire feel and sound of a song.
And as I've spent every summer of my life in Cape Cod I can't help but laugh at some of the lyrics (Walcott is a great song but Hyannis is the farthest thing from a ghetto in the world).
All in all this CD has been on loop in my player for close to a week now, and I've yet to get bored of it. A miracle considering my short attention span.
Free Music Review: Best Debut ,no scratch that, best CD so far this century.
Hit: 5 Stars
I had to chime in with a review here because I can't believe all the reviewers that call this wonderful new band derivative and unoriginal. Sure they are influenced by the Police and Paul Simon and perhaps several other great artists, but at least their influences aren't Justin Timberlake, Britney, or Eminem. This is far and away my favorite new group of the last few years(Cat Empire is a not too close second), and the great thing about this young band is you can tell they have the talent and the chops to be around for a long time and continue to experiment with a host of great sounds. Since I find the whole disc a pleasure I won't comment on the discs best cuts, but instead say that I find only 2 cuts less than superior, and those are Mansard Roof, and Campus. Even those cuts aren't bad, just not classics. Now I will let you know this is a new version of the review I wrote about this band 2 months ago. This disc has really grown on me. I can't get enough of it. So I even upped my former 5 star review, and got more gushy on these guys. Exceptional band.Free Music Review: Best Album of '08
Hit: 5 Stars
Indie rock has a tendency to take itself too seriously. Fortunately, Vampire Weekend has managed to resist that urge to produce a smooth, consistent set of fun songs with clever lyrics and catchy melodies.
The African influences give Vampire Weekend a distinctive style. Think of this album as a hip successor to Paul Simon's Graceland, an interesting flirtation with afro-pop that's mainly remembered for the whimsical "You Can Call Me Al."
I enjoyed every song on this impressive debut, particularly "Oxford Comma," "A-Punk," and "I Stand Corrected." For comparison, my other favorite albums include The Arcade Fire's first, Funeral, and Guster's infectious Lost and Gone Forever.