The world of college music comes in the form of one oddest named bands I'd ever seen. My friend in high-school asked me to burn this CD for him, but the name was completely foreign to me. Vampire Weekend? The name of the band was created by the band after making a video about a kid named Walcott (played by lead singer Ezra Koenig) who hurries to tell the mayor of a city that vampires are coming. Ironically, the tenth song on the album actually titled 'Walcott' may just be about the idea of the movie itself, as Koenig pleas for his character, "Walcott, don't you know that it's insane / Don't you want to get out of Cape Cod / Out of Cape Cod tonight?" The song fits perfectly with the plot of their school project by uses of loud cymbals, frantic keyboard crescendo and a surprising use of cello that puts a cherry on top of one of the best songs of the album.
The theme of movies may seem to be a thing within the group also with the song, 'Oxford Comma'. The video for the song is split into four different scenes and makes no sense at all. But Oxford Comma's use of language or 'diction' as they say in the song, is complex in the tune. The song could be a song about a relationship with a play on the English subject including lyrics "Why would speak to me to that way / Especially when I always said that I haven't got the words for you" Koenig's yodeling vocals are funny, but they work with the song's marching band drums and addicting keyboard melody. Did I mention they cite Lil Jon's 'Get Low' in the song?
'Mansard Roof' is a great start to the album considering its funeral strings and similar feel of of drums and keyboards present on the rest of the record. 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' seems like a Boogie Nights themed song as Koenig sings "Is your bed made? / Is your sweater off? / To you want to? / Like I know I do." Let's just say it's pretty much any anthem for a virgin-college freshman as Koenig finishes cleverly "But it feels so unnatural / Peter Gabriel too." And 'I Stand Corrected', another great (sappy) song, builds with each verse from electronics to strong snares and minor use of strings.
'M83' sounds like a wonderful Irish jig with a giant chorus and 'Campus' notes the feelings of every undergraduate who wonders the grass of their University along their way to class. I mean we've all seen that one particular girl right? 'A-Punk' the most popular song on the album is irresistible like any other song that seems to pop up in most of the movies we've seen within the past few years. It's flute during the chorus and the 'Ay-ay-ay-ays' are the best though.
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