7.1
Avg Score
11
Opinions
#27,003
All Time
21
Tracks
“The first album in six years from Ezra Koenig and Co. is rich ear candy loaded with helplessness and crisis.”
““I think I take myself too serious / It’s not that serious”, Ezra Koenig croaks approximately halfway through Vampire Weekend’s new album ‘Father Of The Bride’. It arrives at the start of ‘Sympathy’, a meaty track halfway through the 18-track record, which sees the band blend rock and rave for the first time. The song is loose, funky and a reminder that, actually, they’ve not been taking themselve”
“Vampire Weekend return with a shaggy, sprawling double album all about rebirth, contentment, and the reclamation of light.”
“Ezra Koenig matures gracefully on new Vampire Weekend LP Father Of The Bride”
“Vampire Weekend embraces quantity over quality on Father of the Bride.”
““I don’t wanna live like this/ but I don’t wanna die,” sang Ezra Koenig midway through Vampire Weekend’s last album, during a song that referenced forbidden love while raising an ironic eyebrow at New York City’s affluent suburbs. Around it sat eleven other songs full of archly self-aware, rather elliptical observations about class, religion and millennial identity, written and performed with the ”
