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.

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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. "