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Breath of fresh air from Vampire Weekend

By Lisa LewisEntertainment Reporter
Don’t let this New York foursome’s looks fool you. The whiter-than-white Columbia University kids who make up Vampire Weekend know how to take musical influences from all over the world and from several different time periods and turn it into something that actually works.
Ezra Koenig (vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (keyboards/vocals), Chris Baio (bass) and Christopher Tomson (drums) met while studying at the university. The group has toured with The Shins in Europe and is on an international tour in promotion of its first album.
The band’s name came from a movie Koenig and his friends made about a country being taken over by vampires, he said in an interview with http://www.bwog.com.
The band’s self-titled album, released Jan. 29 on XL Recordings, is a combination of tribal or battle-march style percussion, poppy keyboards, repetitive plucky guitars and occasional classical instrumental paired with poetic, often nonsensical lyrics.
Koenig’s vocals transition between sounding like Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Ziggy Marley, a younger Sting or a more upbeat Thom Yorke from Radiohead, and sometimes miraculously all four at once.
Vampire Weekend’s fusion of multiple different types of music ultimately defies a true genre placement. However, if the band’s music had to be categorized, it would create something that I might describe as progrexperindieggae (a combination of progressive and experimental rock, indie music and reggae, for those who are confused) with interwoven hints of tribal, classical and ska influences throughout. Maybe the group’s description of “Upper West Side Soweto” is more fitting.
The end result is something you might expect to hear from a band playing to a sparse crowd in the middle of a park, where people can dance like no one is watching.
“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” the first single from the album, references to Congolese soukous (African rumba) music and was No. 67 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Songs of 2007. The repetitive guitar chorus comes off as a bit annoying at first but the song gives way to a sublime hand-drum interlude and one is struck with a nearly-irresistible urge to move around when hearing it.
“M79,” the standout track on the album, channels a hopped-up Mozart instrumental with its harpsichord and sweeping string accompaniment, as well as containing a subdued tribal-sounding backing chorus.
The topic in “Campus” is probably one many students can identify with – having a crush on a professor, with the possibility of that crush going awry. “Then I see you/ You’re walking cross the campus/ Cruel professor/ Studying romances/ How am I supposed to pretend/ I never want to see you again?” Koenig states amid a simplified-but-building soundscape of drum beats, guitar plucks, keyboards, cymbals and string accompaniment.
Though mystifying lyrics abound throughout the songs such as the “Pollination yellow cab” and “Coronation rickshaw grab” from “M79” Koenig occasionally waxes profoundly understandable (“All your diction dripping with disdain/ Through the pain/ I always tell the truth” from “Oxford Comma”).
Track No. 8, “Bryn,” is the obligatory love-professing tune (“Oh Bryn! You see in the dark/ Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart”) set to a background of romantic Spanish-sounding instrumentals.
“One (Blake’s Got a New Face)” breaks into an ambient, electronica-infused tone with West Coast guitar strums and with the other band members once again adding a tribal accompaniment backing to Koenig’s wailing chorus.
The powerful, pounding piano intro and interlude make “Walcott” another catchy and noteworthy song.
The album ends on a mellow, deep, decidedly Caribbean-sounding note with “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance,” which channels Bob Marley’s “One Love.” However, it also sneaks in harpsichord and string instrumentals and melodic guitar breaks and even a woodwind accompaniment.
Warning: this album isn’t for those who love their tired, overexposed mainstream cookie-cutter style of music. It’s for open-minded music lovers looking for something completely different.
Vampire Weekend’s firstborn may not be mind-blowing or world-changing, but it’s at least fairly groundbreaking as far as music styles go. After an initial reaction of “What the …?” it’ll put a beat in your head and a smile on your face. Give it a listen. Your ears will thank you.
The Verdict:
Vampire Weekend’s self-titled album is a bongo hit of fresh air.