Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

2014 Grammy Awards:

Best Alternative Music Album

Featuring "Diane Young" and "Step"

Includes MP3 album download

"Vampire Weekend's third album is a remarkable progression from a band that was already functioning at a high level. The songs are more spontaneous and dynamic and, along with the more lived-in sonics, Modern Vampires finds the group taking a leap forward into emotional directness." — Pitchfork

"...the quartet's strong new third album that marks a huge leap forward. Showing a maturity in both the songwriting and musical ideas, it's the rare third record that abandons what came before it. Gone are the frenetic African guitar influences and hyper wordplay that made Vampire Weekend so beloved with the college set. Now there's an expansiveness in the music, borne out of a confidence that allows the songs to unfurl rather than rebound like pinballs." — The Boston Globe

Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend's third album, and it is a bustling world of voices and visions from the death of Henry Hudson to the Orthodox girl falling in love at an uptown falafel shop, from Hannah Hunt tearing up the New York Times on a distant beach to the lethal chandelier of "Everlasting Arms," from the ardent yearning of "Don't Lie" to the harmonized voice of hope in "Young Lion". Modern Vampires of the City has a grandeur and romanticism evocative of the city where it was conceived.

 

 

 

1. Obvious Bicycle

2. Unbelievers

3. Step

4. Diane Young

5. Don't Lie

6. Hannah Hunt

7. Everlasting Arms

8. Finger Back

9. Worship You

10. Ya Hey

11. Hudson

12. Young Lion

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