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VAMPIRE WEEKEND

- LP -

VAMPIRE WEEKEND

- LTD EDN. VINYL ALBUM -

CLASSIC Debut album on new pristine Vinyl.

You want ideas? Vampire Weekend have ideas. They've also 

got wit, imagination, an eye for lyrical detail and an ear for

 musical adventure. most importantly vampire weekend 

have tunes. Oh yes, they've got tunes. Dealing in genres the

 band have dubbed 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' and 'Upper

 West Side Soweto'. 'Vampire Weekend' is a breath of fresh air,

both musically and lyrically, with this new york band endeavouring 

to make music that is anything but straight ahead rock. straight

 ahead? as if. this is indie-rock that isn't indie-rock, a joyously

 exuberant carnival of melody and rhythm. strings. organs. 

afro-funk guitars. courtly 18th century harpsichord. a bit of 

post-punk (maybe franz ferdinand crossed with the bhundu 

boys?). lyrics about grammar and architecture and preferred

 bus routes and the british imperial origins of american preppie 

fashion. with fleet-footed pizzazz vampire weekend deploy all 

these to craft a tinglingly refreshing sound. anyone for brainy

 party music? take 'oxford comma', a spartan funk charmer that 

references a piece of grammar (you can look it up). then there's the

 band's debut, limited edition uk single, 'mansard roof'. said 

roof is an architectural style that offers extra living space in an

 attic. the lyrics then go on: "the argentines collapse in defeat,

 the admiralty surveys the remnants of the fleet". you want world

 music? that is, music of the world? you want vampire weekend. 

you can throw yourself around the moshpit to campus. you can

 imagine what happened to characters in forthcoming single 

'a-punk' before they ended up in the song ("johanna drove slowly

 across the city / the hudson river all filled with snow / she spied 

the ring on his honour's finger / oh-oh-oh"). you can shed a tear,

 then shed your clothes, at the hymnal-meets-tribal thunder 

of 'i stand corrected' or the epic 'm79', which is named after 

a manhatten bus route and forms the heart of the album

Condition - MINT / UNPLAYED (NEW and SEALED)

Catalogue Number - XXLP318

Any extra 7" is 50p (some FREE) in UK, £1 to Europe 

and £1.50 elsewehere.

Any extra 12" is £1 (some FREE) in the 

UK, £3 Europe, £4 world.

ANY Flyers / STICKERS / Paper goods /

 Flats are POST FREE with any vinyl.