Review: Vampire Weekend is back — just in time for the end of the world
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. By Chris Richards Chris Richards Pop music critic Email Bio Follow Pop music critic May 3 at 12:14 PM Not to damn this band to the ninth circle of faint praise, but Vampire Weekend has always been the epitome of neato.
Unfortunately, the band’s cheerily apocalyptic fourth album, “Father of the Bride,” comes after a six-year absence and one man down — Rostam Batmanglij, the guitarist and producer who originally figured out how to overload a Vampire Weekend song with sonic details that somehow made everything feel airy. Without Batmanglij at the controls, frontman Ezra Koenig’s songs now seem to only sprawl and sink.
In other songs, Koenig funnels his accurately doomy worldview through cute melodies, singing about “this life and all its suffering” and how “hate is always waiting at the gate.” At one point he asks, “What’s the point of human beings?” On the album’s lead single, “Harmony Hall,” Koenig presents his desperation — “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die” — with some tambourine shimmy and a wink.
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