Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Black Vinyl • LP
Vampire Weekend arrived fully formed. Afrobeat guitars, chamber strings, Ivy League wit, and somehow made it all feel like a summer afternoon. Oxford Comma argues about punctuation and wins. A-Punk doesn't sit still for a second. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa name-checks Peter Gabriel and gets away with it. One of the great debut albums, still sounding like it was recorded next week.
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Recorded in dorm rooms, apartments, and a barn in Imlaystown, New Jersey on a shoestring budget, Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut was produced entirely by multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij while the band were still working day jobs. Released on XL Recordings in January 2008, it drew comparisons to Paul Simon's Graceland, comparisons Simon himself publicly dismissed, telling the band he felt they were simply drawing from the same well. The album blends Afropop guitar lines, baroque string arrangements, Chamberlin, harpsichord, and reggaeton rhythms into something that didn't sound like anything else at the time. It debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and number 15 on the UK Albums Chart, was named the 5th best album of 2008 by Time, and later ranked 430th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Singles "A-Punk" and "Oxford Comma" remain among the most recognisable tracks of the era.
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