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Music CD - Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
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Music CD: Vampire Weekend
Artist: Vampire Weekend
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $8.11
Your Save: $ 3.87 ( 32% )
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Manufacturer: Xl Recordings
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Tracks:
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1. Mansard Roof
2. Oxford Comma
3. A-Punk
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. M79
6. Campus
7. Bryn
8. One (Blake's Got A New Face)
9. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0634904031824
Label: Xl Recordings
Manufacturer: Xl Recordings
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Xl Recordings
Release Date: 2008-01-29
Studio: Xl Recordings
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: fun and infectious pop
Comment: easy and fun to listen to. Long time since I heard something I wanted to listen to more than once.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Less than stellar
Comment: 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.
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Summary: A Stand-Out
Comment: 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!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love the CD
Comment: I first heard these guys on Sirius Radio (leftcenter) and I loved the sound. I am really enjoying the CD. Love the upbeat melodies and the different instrumentals. I also discovered a song named Bryn (my daughter is Brynne). Whatever, I thought that was cool! Great summer music. IMHO
Customer Rating:
Summary: Late to the party, but glad I came
Comment: I wish I would have heard of Vampire Weekend when they were first starting to make some underground waves. Despite that, they have a fun sound that will appeal to a lot of people (perhaps selling out from what they started off as, but can't tell for sure) from indie, alternative, and pop. It'll be interesting to see what happens next for them.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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