Though we live on the U.S. dollar, you and I, we, share our own sense of time.
I’m declaring Vampire Weekend’s newest album “Modern Vampires of the City” the best album of 2013, the best album this decade, and an ALL-TIME great. It’s a notch below the Beatles’ best, but only one. It’s close. Songs “Diane Young” and “Hannah Hunt” battle in different styles for best song, and best overall song this year! Two all time classics.
On that note, I am strongly considering that Vampire Weekend could be our generation’s biggest and most important band. They keep churning out incredibly catchy tunes, yet it’s far from cookie-cutter. They’ve put out three albums, all fantastic. Their first started them off with a bang. Almost perfect from start to finish, it’s about as good a debut album you can make. Their second album had fewer solid songs and was a bit uneven, but you can now see they were trying out more and more experimentation; they were experimenting how far they could push their music while still having their unique VW sound. That was the test run. Their third album, 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City is the perfection of that experimentation. The songs are lush. It sounds like endless hours and tries were spent on each and every song. The piano lines are beautiful and dominant. Not in an overpowering way, but in how they stand out so elegantly. Anyone else hearing that Paul Simon influence in there as well? Paul Simon is one of the gold standard American songwriters; Vampire Weekend could one day in the not-to-distant-future be right alongside him. Amazing album from start to finish.
Giving their quick rise (1 above average album, 1 classic debut, and 1 classic all-time album, countless hits), Vampire Weekend has established themselves as one of THE artists. I don’t see them slowing down from here. At this pace, an all-time classic band is how we, one day, could describe them.
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