Vampire Weekend – This Life
The best show of the 90s, if you ask the membership of Change UK, but what about the song?
The best show of the 90s, if you ask the membership of Change UK, but what about the song?
So I was going to re-use one of our taglines from previous entries as a hat-tip to self-referencing, but none of them made sense in context. So you’ll have to make do with editorial whingeing instead.
And not a one of these guys is named Jason, but let’s pretend… [Video][Website] [5.33] Katherine St Asaph: “You know how some couples have get-out-of-jail-free cards where you’re OK to hypothetically hook up with whichever celebrity? Society should have that concept except for punching people in the face. And one of mine would be Ezra […]
This is in fact our lowest Vampire Weekend score ever. [Video][Website] [5.58] Alfred Soto: Ezra Koenig is the only modern singer who can sing against this arrangement without collapsing into preciousness. And what an arrangement: the harpsichord, of course; the piano run beneath Koenig; a rhythm unafraid to leave spaces. The lyrics, alluding to Croesus […]
You wanted to see it…
Just so we’re clear, that’s Vampire Weekend as our highest-scoring single so far this year. How’s your humble pie tasting, haters? Mmm? MMMMM?…
Get those creases ironed…
Imagine the reverse: The Weeknd – “Eden xo.”
We say goodbye to the weekend with a guy who said goodbye to Vampire Weekend.
Congrats to Vampire Weekend – there’s at least one person in the world who looks like more of a fanny than you…