“Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Tomson take all the right risks to deliver a superb return to form on their awaited fifth album.”
“On their masterfully knotty fifth album, Vampire Weekend go on a self-mythological journey into old sounds, old haunts, and old cities to find something new within.”
“"Fuck the world," goes the first line of Only God Was Above Us — a blunt, dour departure from the cheekiness this peppy, preppy group were once known for. Vampire Weekend's fifth album, while by no means a complete departure from their past work, takes a cloudier outlook, both in lyrics that bear the burden of the passage of time and busy arrangements that muck up the generally pretty tunes. "Gen”
“Of all the ambitious bands to emerge from New York in the early 2000s, Vampire Weekend are one of the few to attain unrelenting relevance and interest in their new material in the decades since. Never underdelivering or surrendering to the fatal comfort of recreating their early success, each record that followed their 2008, self-titled debut has maintained an element of innovation, while also kee”
“The band’s first album in five years follows a rough path towards guarded hope”
“The city has changed, and so have Vampire Weekend — but underneath the layers of grime, graffiti, and garbage, their eclectic spirit remains unbroken.”
