Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (CD)
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Vampire Weekend arrived on their third record having shed most of the Afropop buoyancy that defined their early work, leaning instead into orchestral arrangements, Rostam Batmanglij's densest production, and questions about faith and mortality that hit harder than anything in their catalog. The result won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album in 2014, but the trophy undersells what the band actually pulled off: a New York record that feels genuinely timeless.
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.
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UPC: 634904055622
Label: Xl Recordings
Release Date: 5.14.13
Format: CD