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Vampire Weekend by: Vampire Weekend City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 16.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0634904031824 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: Select Distributions Manufacturer: Select Distributions Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Select Distributions Release Date: January 29, 2008 Studio: Select Distributions Sales Rank: 117 MPN: 40318 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: It would take a lot for Vampire Weekend's debut to rise above the stench of privileged hype that surrounds it. A bunch of kids who formed the band in their Columbia dorm room borrow wholesale from Afrobeat and angular '80s stuff, and they quickly become an online buzz band before releasing a single album? Thankfully the record, and the band, are great fun: playful, pop-wise, and smart enough to pull their shtick off with aplomb. Organ and drums are often the focal point of the music, bringing to mind a goofier, happier Clinic (if that group's record-collecting habits were more scattershot). On the excellently named (and better sounding) "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," Vampire Weekend asks, "Does it feel so unnatural / To Peter Gabriel too?," immediately disarming--with self-aware brazenness--any criticism of their pomo/postcolonialist borrowing of "ethnic" music. It's clear that these dudes have not only inherited the nerd-rock omnivore's mantle from the Talking Heads, they've actually and already improved upon it. --Mike McGonigal Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Vampire Weekend Solid DebutI was hesitant to like this disc initially. When I heard the background of the band, the influences and the sound affiliations; I was thinking it was going to be way too derivative (which seems to be way too common today). This album works, even though it is short in length (play it twice!). The influences abound from The Beat, General Public, early Police and various 'Two-Tone' bands and the occasional dash of Violent Femmes. It strongly reminds me of the way I felt when I first listened to Outlandos D'Amour. The songs are infinitely listenable, mostly upbeat and dare I say, fun. The band's description of themselves as 'Upper West Side Soweto' is apt. The strong songs are Oxford Comma, Mansard Roof, A-Punk and M-79, with One (Blake's ... Read More: Rating: - "An educated, endlessly imaginative and different piece of work".This quartet of Columbia University graduates have been attracting a lot of attention with their jaunty blend of African-influenced indie-pop and unabashedly haut-bourgeois lyricism - wags call it "Upper West Side Soweto". They use that crisp, polyrhythmic African guitar style known as soukus, their song title Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa a perfect label for their kind of postGraceland, indie-highlife. Add to that lots of pop-goes-fugue strings and harpsichord, military drums and you've the sound of colonials cutting loose with their captives. Or a bid to be Wes Anderson's house band. Vampire Weekend combine these two potentially jarring ingredients with a poise and charm that are entirely their own. If you're going to ... Read More: Rating:  - Happy catchy tunesIt really feels as though this album should have been released in the summertime by the feeling it gives while listening to it, but hey, sunshine can follow you anywhere you go....and if you're listening to this album, it's always shining down. Quite short at only 34 mins but that just demands repeated listening. Highly Recommended. |
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