Given the groups Ivy League pedigree, one might expect long-winded dissertations concerning who knows what, exactly, out of recent
XL Recordings signees,
Vampire Weekend. Instead, the bands debut full length plays like precious post card pop; one side beaming in picture perfect musical snap shots of Cape Cod, Khyber Pass, New York City, Old San Juan, and South Africa; the other sketched in
Ezra Koenigs semi-legible, lyrical scribbles. High society escapades, beach house grope and grabs, carefree campus time, and pointless punctuation (Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?)
Sifting through such collegiate concerns might draw a few sourpuss sighs and oh to be young eye rolls from a slightly older crowd. But everyone deserves their youth
especially when it sounds this good.
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David Pitz
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