Vampire Weekend and Top 100 Songs

Feeling more at home running, sat tattily exotic maze Shepherds Bush market in photo studio on the opposite side of the road show with Vampire Weekend a quick lunch, falafel, they are a band to dig up the expectations a little 'deeper and more challengingare enjoying.

This time last year, Vampire Weekend have been Top 100 Songs collected all year-end fame after his 2008 self-titled debut, full of Afrobeat rhythms and more left hooks in closet, was both a critical and commercial success on both sides the Atlantic. "A-Punk", "Oxford  r kelly albums Comma" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" modest dignity of students' associations with a secular, scientific optimism, dry, full of flavor all summer and limiting.

But now comes the bit 'difficult. The alumni of Columbia University by Ivy League and are divided into the big leagues, about the second album, "Contraband," which is set to prove to be abandoned.

- - -
This is an excerpt from an article that appears in the Top 100 Songs  February issue of the magazine Clash. Pick it up in stores on Jan. 11. You can read the whole thing HERE and HERE to subscribe to the magazine Clash.

- - -

Given even in his hometown of Brooklyn, 'Contra' immediately feels more mature than its predecessor - a first listen shows an album that is not trying so hard to find and not too interested in moments of self-gratification. A few stops later, what we have here is an album that is more concentrated, more sophisticated, layered with introspection, but in the end just as much fun. Maintains Top 100 Songs  its debut pan-cultural - harpsichords woven from electronic beats, bouncing drums tight, rattle through ska bass lines - with happy songs like "White Sky," jumping on "Run", the frantic 'Cousins' and soft, smooth throughout, the fears of those who 'Vampire Weekend' was a fantastic feeling, once New Country Songs thought to suppress "I Think Ur A Contra '.

In line with their music, Vampire Weekend, The Clash meets in London is a lot of contradictions, initially reserved and impenetrable, scratch below the surface and, when they go out of their shell, they are playful, lively, and are eager to please.Frontman Ezra Koenig maintains constant eye contact, and is considered a scholar and in his answers. To his right and smiled all over, sits multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij, while on the couch in front of the two Chrises are - drummer Chris Tomson and bassist Chris Baio, quieter than the other two, but equally expressive.

We sat down with the Quartet, to find life after their debut, they have to do with immediate success, and as she continues with visions of secular inspiration.

Vampire Weekend and New Country Songs

Vampire Weekend is an indie-pop quartet from New York outfit around the creative partnership of singer Ezra Koenig and producer / arranger based Rostam Batmanglij. The rollicking band music draws heavily from the twee, College Rock, Pop, guitar, West Africa, and the legendary Paul Simon's Graceland album. Vampire Weekend from their self-titled debut in 2008, they made not only one of New Country Songs  the breakout bands of 2008, but one of the most blogged, bands of all time, subject to r kelly albums both bile and play hysterical hype. In 2010 they released their  Top 100 Songs second album, Contra, to control a lot.

Interview: 23 November 2009

Contra was the difficult second album?
"No more difficult than the first. We always have a lot of r kelly albums pressure on us, and if we are not happy sounds with the way a song as you are, can be very difficult to really get into shape. The fact that this not really looked after our second album a few changes. Even if we had the first album, and none of us, we were still in our hair, as you sing sounds right. It's all in us. "

Not really feel the weight of expectation, this time?
"That made me not feel more pressure, so it seemed a largely positive e-mails from kids saying that almost makes you feel better to work on it." I can not New Country Songs  for your next album, "You wait because you know that you get from r kelly albums an audience for him."

Did you know that at the beginning of a doubt that there will be an audience for Vampire Weekend?
"I am now, we always had people come to our shows that although most of them were our friends. So I've always thought it was some kind of publicity. I do not New Country Songs  think that we the success that we will have had? We travel the world to play the big festivals? No, I did not think. "

How weird was that suddenly the top?
"It was very surreal at first. Now we have to get used to a little more time, but playing to 40,000 people at Glastonbury is pretty crazy if you think we would have almost exactly the same test with a group of college students Frat drunk to know before playing a year and a half. "

Vampire Weekend and r kelly albums

In pop music, is not often that one New Country Songs   the years best-selling r kelly albums in the world is undoubtedly the music diverse and progressive,and even more difficult. In January, Vampire Weekend, artistic, twenty five years the quartet from New York City, everyone, including himself, by the head of the American charts with her second book, Contra stunned.
And "an album of surprising contrasts. On the one hand, it is packed with the kind of immediate melodies, the band at festivals this summer in Top 100 Songs singing aloud, like looking for a r kelly albums wide audience, as the voice of their lead singer Ezra Koenig acute angel .
But it is also a work of Contra shades is New Country Songs   revealed little by little. There are, as well as dance anthems whizzes, some deeplysophisticated arrangements, both of Western rock music and r kelly albums the "world" and a palette of sounds that influenced rhythm guitars, oldsynths and cleverly combining electronic beats with orchestral strings, pounding bass / drums and  New Country Songs  electrical trust.

Interview: Vampire Weekend are ready to step into the light

Geeks might be too strong a description, but there's something indefinably preppie, perhaps even bookish, about the way Vampire Weekend carry themselves. They're a sociable bunch, and the gang mentality that all naturally formed bands possess is very much in evidence, yet you also imagine that none of the time the quartet spent in education at New York's Columbia University – the Ivy League college where they met – was wasted. It's this scholarly aspect that sets them apart from their peers.

Congregating in a dressing room at Edinburgh's Bongo Club around 11pm on a Sunday night, the band are about to play their last show of a very productive first European tour. They have completed four support dates with The Shins (three in the UK and one in Paris), their song "Mansard Roof" has been named Radio 1's single of the week, and press interest has been building up steam ahead of their debut album's release in February.

Sitting down to a late dinner before they take to the stage, singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig, bassist Chris Baio, drummer Chris Tomson and keyboard player Rostam Batmanglij (all 23) reflect on the experience. "It's all been going pretty well," says Tomson between mouthfuls. "Those [Shins supports] were some of the biggest shows we've ever done, and opening for someone else isn't something we've done often, either. But all in all, The Shins were really nice guys and you could

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Interview: Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend

We took enough s**t for everybody."

Vampire Weekend are a four-piece indie-pop outfit from New York based around the creative partnership of songwriter Ezra Koenig and producer/arranger Rostam Batmanglij. The band's exuberant music draws heavily from twee, college-rock, West African guitar-pop, and Paul Simon's legendary Graceland LP. Vampire Weekend's 2008 self-titled debut made them not merely one of the breakout bands of 2008, but one of the most blogged-about bands ever, subject to both hysterical hype and bilious backlash. In 2010, they released their second album,Contra, to great scrutiny.

Interview: 23 November 2009

Was Contra the difficult second album?
"No more difficult than the first one. We've always put a tremendous amount of pressure on ourselves, and if we're not happy with how a song is sounding, it can be very difficult to really whip it into shape. The fact that this was our second album didn't really change anything. Because, even when we were making the first album, and nobody really cared about us, we were still pulling our hair out about getting the vocals sounding right. It's all internal to us."

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk