Vampire Weekend take all the right risks to deliver a superb return to form on their awaited fifth album, 'Only God Was Above Us.'
Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Tomson take all the right risks to deliver a superb return to form on their awaited fifth album.Over the last 15 or so years, Vampire Weekend have sounded like a thousand different versions of themselves, but they have always sounded like Vampire Weekend. Experimentation is in the artist’s job description, but it can sometimes come at the expense of a cohesive career. Not for VW.
One of those questions that might come with age is what mark are we leaving on this world. Koenig doesn’t seem to be all that concerned with individual legacy, but throughout, he spends a good deal of time playing with the idea of generational imprints. Each generation both creates disasters and is doomed to deal with the disasters made by the one before it, all while laying a foundation for the culture: the fashion, music, food and sports stories that will define us.
There’s also the question of heritage, and how much do we allow our past—either collective or individual—to influence us. Vampire Weekend seem to be keenly aware of their own narrative on. The whole album has a lived-in feel, probably due to the many echoes of songs from Vampire Weekends past.-like ballad, eventually unravels into a hypnotic soundscape not all that unlike “Step.
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