Vampire Weekend - New Track Review

By - EB

This week we happen to receive a few new tracks from the New York native band Vampire Weekend. If you've heard these dudes previously you may know the tracks, "A-Punk", "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" or "Oxford Comma". They kind of blew up in 2010 with the album Contra and the single "Cousins". That album consisted of some weird rhyming by the lead singer Ezra Koenig and some worldly instrumentals. It played along a good balance between classic rock or indie pop and very international sounding instrument brought in from all over the world.

The two tracks we got blessed with this week are from their 3rd studio album titled Modern Vampires of The City due to be released on May 6th. The first track we got is called "Step". This beautiful long track surprised us. It is very romantic, relatively slow and more of a love song. The use of auto tune on this piece is done tastefully and it makes the vocals mesh well with the instrumentals to sound pretty. The song is laid down over a lyric video in front of cool black and white shots of New York city. The Second track we got is called "Dianne Young". This songs cute play on words Dying Young, is a match for a upbeat cool pop song with a well mixed vocal set. The song is put over  video of a slow motion burning car in front of a dark grey city background. There are some really witty lyrics hidden here so listen closely.

Check them both out below and let us know what you think.



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