Product Description
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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Vampire Weekend Confirm New Album for Spring
Frontman Ezra Koenig calls new record 'darker' and more 'organic'

January 4, 2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... g-20130104

Vampire Weekend's third album will be released this spring, according to a Q magazine article posted on the Team Vampire Weekend fan tumblr. Frontman Ezra Koenig called the still-untitled new record "darker" and more "organic," saying it feels like the end of a trilogy. "It really does feel like the third chapter in a book," Koenig told Q. "We created some characters on the first record, some of which are real people, some of which are ourselves, so it's not hard to keep following them and see what their concerns are now and how their lives have changed."

Koenig pointed to the fast nature of the Internet as a reason for the three-year gap between the new effort and their last record, Contra. "Something new comes out and there's a frenzy and then you see how quickly it can all disappear," he said. "You can have a year or two based on being of the moment but beyond that, you're only as good as your songs."

The time off between discs was essential, he added. "If someone had put a gun to our heads a year ago, we could have handed something in and it wouldn't have sucked," said Koenig. "But if we listen back to our own work and it doesn't sound the way we wanted, the depression that sets in is really extreme. So releasing a record that we didn't feel 100 percent about would commit us to a year of depression, touring a half-assed record."

Vampire Weekend on Their Adventurous New Album
After nearly two years of work, the indie crew's third LP is finally almost done

By Jenny Eliscu
January 16, 2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... m-20130116


Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend

There's a whisper of relief in Ezra Koenig's voice as the singer-guitarist says that Vampire Weekend's third album is almost complete after more than 20 months of writing and recording. "Sometimes we thought maybe we were done," Koenig says. "But it's always very apparent when you're not." Producer and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij, the other half of the band's core writing duo, chuckles knowingly.

Vampire Weekend – Koenig and Batmanglij, plus drummer Chris Tomson and bassist Chris Baio – have never taken this long to make a record. "There was a certain point where we kind of knew deep down that it didn't quite feel right," says Koenig, who's putting some final mixing touches on the disc (due out in the spring) at Manhattan's Downtown Music Studios with Batmanglij. "We knew it could be better."

Last January, they had a breakthrough. The duo holed up in Batmanglij's Brooklyn apartment one day, and in less than six hours they had written "Unbelievers" – a jittery pop tune on par with fan favorites like 2009's "Cousins." That spring, a four-day writing retreat at a friend's house in Martha's Vineyard yielded three more strong new tracks, including the spare, spooky "Hudson." "We tried all different ways of working," says Koenig, "little by little, until we reached a point where we could feel awesome about every song."

They headed to L.A. last summer to work with producer Ariel Rechtshaid, a longtime friend whose credits range from the 2006 Plain White T's smash "Hey There Delilah" to tracks he worked on with Diplo for Usher and Snoop Lion. Working with Rechtshaid at a vintage-gear-packed studio built in the 1930s, they turned toward a more organic sound. "The moment we hit a snare drum, we could tell it was the right room," says Rechtshaid. Adds Koenig, "Things that we might have found boring in the past, we've started to find more fresh. This record has more piano and acoustic guitar and organ. But at the same time, that means we needed to find ways to flip it."

The rockabilly-styled highlight "Diane Young," for instance, includes a section where Koenig's voice is digitally modulated so he sounds like a pompadoured robot on the fritz. "We've never wanted to be one of those bands that's just reviving something," says Batmanglij. "I think with this album, we've had to be less self-conscious than ever."

Vampire Weekend Set Release Date for Third LP
Long-awaited follow-up to 'Contra' is due May 7th

January 22, 2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... p-20130122

Vampire Weekend will release their long-awaited third album on May 7th, the band announced on Twitter. No title has been chosen for the record, which the band simply referred to as "LP3."

The band has been working on the follow-up to 2010's Contra for more than 20 months, frontman Ezra Koenig told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. It's the longest Vampire Weekend have ever spent on an album, with Koenig admitting, "There was a certain point where we kind of knew deep down that it didn't quite feel right. We knew it could be better."

After a few breakthrough writing sessions – including the one that produced "Unbelievers," which the band debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in November – the group flew to Los Angeles to work with producer and longtime friend Ariel Rechtshaid, working in a studio built in the 1930s and filled with vintage gear. "Things that we might have found boring in the past, we've started to find more fresh," said Koenig. "This record has more piano and acoustic guitar and organ. But at the same time, that means we needed to find ways to flip it."

Rostam Batmanglij, the other half of Vampire Weekend's core writing duo, added, "We've never wanted to be one of those bands that's just reviving something. I think with this album, we've had to be less self-conscious than ever."

Additional information from Billboard.com:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... city-album

And additional information from Consequence of Sound, including cover artwork and track listing:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/02/v ... -the-city/

These guys are so great. There are so many acts from the 2000's that I think are fantastic like Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Phoenix, Mumford And Sons, Keane, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Joe Bonamassa, Ghost, The Darkness, Air, Adele, The XX, Dresden Dolls, etc.-all different styles of music but I just don't see how anyone can say today's music sucks.

I agree IP, sorry to report I do not have anything on these guys. What do they have now, 3 albums? Should I start from first release and work to current?

Your thoughts?

Rick A.

Bump: This was pushed back by one week, and is out today.