![]() Make it white, and if you’ve got it, a little ice. ![]() There are still moments of conflict, but in general, you get the sense the band is just relieved to have run the gauntlet of their existential doubts and come out relatively unscathed, grateful to be here. Now we have Father of the Bride-a looser, broader album than Modern Vampires, the great sigh after a long holding of breath. ![]() It felt, appropriately, like the band’s then-home of New York, a place where you can’t take a walk around the block without feeling like you’re bothering the dead.įrontman Ezra Koenig relocated to Los Angeles, made an animated series for Netflix (“ Neo Yokio”) and became a parent Rostam Batmanglij-the band’s Swiss Army knife and in-house producer-worked with Carly Rae Jepsen and Charli XCX, leaving Vampire Weekend in 2016 to work on solo music the band has lived inside a pregnant pause. Even the silences crackled with old life, a poster on a city street stripped away to reveal the fragment of poster underneath. Their third and last album, 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City, felt almost haunted, every line crammed with allusion, every space stuffed with weird, processed sounds. ![]() In time, they grew bigger, denser, more serious. ![]()
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