Vampire Weekend

The best underground band of 2007, and one of the best albums of the same year. Here's a three-song sampler:





Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Vampire Weekend - A Punk (The song from the beginning of Step Brothers.)


As reviewed by me in Detroit's Metro Times:

It isn’t the pop-harmony style, reminiscent of the Rascals, that make indie pop foursome Vampire Weekend special. And it isn’t the literate, new wave edge owing to Elvis Costello and Paul Simon that stands out, though it’s nice to hear a garage band owing to someone other than the Clash or the Who. No, it’s the who’d’ve-thunk-it Afro-pop syncopation that helped the band land their single “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” on Rolling Stone’s list of the best songs of 2007. Influenced by the three-chord percussion of a timeless African drum sound, they fuse Brit-rock with a clean-cut, upper-class sound (well, they did go to Columbia University) and even add some woodwinds. Don’t be confused by the sweaters or polos, these guys can play.

Enjoy the tunes.




Photo by Kekslover, Wikipedia Creative Commons