Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City Vinyl Review

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Vampire weekend modern vampires of the city vinyl review.

Yes this is a more grown up album. Still vampire weekend make a damn good case for wisdom all across modern vampires. The truly mature modern vampires of the city however is a big departure charting the perils and pleasures of adulthood with impressive singular range. Referencing modern vampires of the city lp album ltd whi xllp556 this is one of the best albums released in the past ten years.

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 is for me vampire weekend s best album. Vampire weekend s modern california pop masterpiece father of the bride the first album in six years from ezra koenig and co. Everything sounds a little bit more polished and the production quality is great.

That said the vinyl pressings have thus far been absolute rubbish. Modern vampires of the city the band s first record in over three years can still fit into the privilege narrative but to force it obfuscates how the record is both bolder and more considered. It largely trades in the africa inspired giddiness of their first two records. It moves forward from their previous albums contra and s t without moving to far away from what made the band so popular in the first place.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2013 vinyl release of modern vampires of the city on discogs. Everything sounds a little bit more polished and the production quality is great. Every copy i ve played and i ve gone through about six on multiple players has had a distinctive hiss in the left channel.