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Vampire Weekend | 
 enlarge | Artist: Vampire Weekend
Label: Xl
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £4.32
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40318
UPC: 634904031824
EAN: 0634904031824
ASIN: B0010V4TZU
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| » | Mansard Roof | | » | Oxford Comma | | » | A-Punk | | » | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | | » | M79 | | » | Campus | | » | Bryn | | » | One (Blake's Got A New Face) | | » | I Stand Corrected | | » | Walcott | | » | Kids Don't Stand A Chance |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Who would have thought it? Nobody, that's who. The last time African music enjoyed any meaningful dalliance with the Western mainstream it was under Paul Simon's patronage with his peerless 1986 album Graceland. That's if you don't count Damon Albarn's extra curricular indulgences (which you don't). The last place we expected it to turn up again was from four New York kids who otherwise might have been found fiddling with their fringes in dorm rooms waiting for the Albert Hammond Jr. tour to hit town. Even by the obscure standards US indie has set itself over the last few years (see TV on the Radio and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) Vampire Weekend offer up a witch's brew of audacity. That alone would be sufficient to garner infamy and a rep for experimentation, but they also hang from this rebellion of form a stream of alt-tunefulness so efficient and unabashed it would make The Strokes' first album blush. Thus, the piping reggae organ and sun-kissed swagger of "Oxford Comma" is given a heartbeat by tight lo-fi garage drums and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" lilts along with cheerful tribal rhythms and crisp African guitar, bound by ascending psychedelic vocals. And that's not to mention the mad strings that make listening to "M79" like watching Ski Sunday on hallucinogens. Their advanced rhythmical awareness even makes more standard indie rampages "I Stand Corrected" and "Walcott" less standard. Which is about the length of it; Vampire Weekend, making the standard much less standard. --James Berry
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 Quality pop May 15, 2008
I must be getting old because I bought this after reading a review in the Grauniad!!! But no regrets here- it's fun, quirky pop that put me in a spring mood, probably because of the reggae/Afro rhythms that permeate the tracks. The most obvious comparison that sprang to mind for me was actually with the Beatles because, like a Beatles album, the tracks are all a bit original and eccentric.
 BUY THIS! May 11, 2008
Undoubtable the album of the year, if you are too cool for school - you would be mad to miss out on this corker... but enjoy it now, before radio 1 get their claws in to it!
AMAZING April 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This new band are a breath of fresh air. The instrumentals and vocals are sublime. Really good, enjoyable music. Look forward to hear more stuff from this refreshingly good band!!!!!!!
funtime pub/pop rock. Lightweight short and thoroughly enjoyable April 13, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I Like others have been moved to write a review because of the unfair drubbing this album is getting. It appears that everyone who doesn't like this dislikes it for the wrong reasons.
1. they don't want to hear it on repeat on the radio and TV- well switch over!
2. It's not what they were expecting from the hype- Well more fool you, you should have checked the readily available samples first!
3. It's lightweight and short- Well thank god! We need a little lightweight short chirpy tunes very now and then!
4. It's unoriginal- well no music is original it is all a product of what has gone before and I would take issue with that anyway, it's used the influences in an enjoyable original way!
This album is an instantly accessable funtime pub/pop rock album. I've booked tickets for two of their gigs since getting it. It's currently the only album I'll listen to while doing all the dreaded chores around the house. It's quick, upbeat and very danceable. I can't wait to jump around at their gigs to this. I love stand and listen in awe rock as much as the next guy, but sometimes you need to put your pretensions away and just have fun. Be aware that this album is like this and you won't regret your purchase. Only like moody, long winded stuff then look elsewhere and don't dare dish this album. It never claims to be anything other than a good time.
good stuff March 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Im not usually moved to write reviews, but this album seems to be getting a drubbin (undeserved in my opinion) so thought id stand up for it. Its good, simple, breezy, short - this is probably the most important factor here - the album is short, 11 songs, only one over 4 mins so there is no time for it to go stale. Best songs - Bryn, Oxford comma, Kids don't stand a chance, mansard roof, walcott...they're all good...good fun. Saw them live as well supporting the Shins. Good live too. In conlusion - chill out, have a listen - u'll enjoy it after a few listens.
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