One of my friends favourite albums and an enjoyable , easy listen Vampire Weekend’s debut album is a fantastic musical success.
Vampire Weekend’s soft , indie rock is as punchy and edgy as many albums from supposedly harder genres and yet remains both an easy listen and manages to retain the oh so important balance of harmony and discord integral to most sounds. The first track, Mansard Roof, starts off with a nonchalant beat and a catchy first verse. The track has an interesting feel to it with the acoustics of the violins and percussion with a sort of whimsical techno feel.
Oxford Comma is the second track and has a slightly more edgy tone than Mansard but has that typical afro-beat and appealing stop , start nature which appears to be a big part of their music. Ezra Koenig proved himself to be a talented lyricist with this song with his witty and elegant prose a major highlight.
A-Punk is probably my favourite track on this album with the light guitar and earthy flute making it both a personal favourite and also doing enough to land itself at No.62 on NME’s Top 150 Songs Of The Last 15 Years.
Overall , Vampire Weekend is a great debut album and with their latest album Contra a strong success I look forward to plenty more to come from them.
If you enjoyed this album you may also enjoy:One For The Road by The Kinks , Rules by Whitest Boy Alive , Coals To Newcastle by Orange Juice.
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