- Vampire Weekend (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = Vampire Weekend
Type = studio
Artist =Vampire Weekend
Released = Start date|2008|1|29
Recorded = 2007
Genre =Indie rock
Length = 34:13
Label = XL
Producer = Rostam Batmanglij
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfoxz9hldje 2008]
*"Blender" Rating|4|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=4984 2008]
*Drowned In Sound (8/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2858648 2008]
*"The Guardian " Rating|4|5 [http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/reviews/story/0,,2246092,00.html 2008]
*"NME " (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/vampire-weekend/9432 2008]
*"The Observer " Rating|4|5 [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,,2241867,00.html 2008]
*Pitchfork Media (8.8/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48053-vampire-weekend 2008]
*PopMatters (9/10) [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/53656/vampire-weekend-vampire-weekend/ 2008]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/17691018/review/18058212/vampire_weekend 2008]
*"Spin" Rating|4|5 [http://www.spin.com/reviews/2008/02/0802_vampire_weekend/ 2008]
*This Is Fake DIY Rating|4|5 [http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/8697/Vampire-Weekend---Vampire-Weekend.html 2008]
*Trax Magazine Rating|4|5
Last album = "Vampire Weekend EP" (2007)
This album = "Vampire Weekend"
(2008)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = Vampire Weekend
Type = album
Single 1 = Mansard Roof
Single 1 date = Start date|2007|10|23
Single 2 =A-Punk
Single 2 date = Start date|2008|2|28
Single 3 = Oxford Comma
Single 3 date = Start date|2008|5|26
Single 4 =Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Single 4 date = Start date|2008|8|18"Vampire Weekend" is the debut album from
New York rock bandVampire Weekend . It was released onJanuary 29 ,2008 throughXL Recordings and was self-produced, with contributions from Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback. In the US, the album sold over 27,000 copies in the first week of its release, debuting at #17 on the Billboard album charts. [cite web |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1581036/20080206/vampire_weekend.jhtml |title= Vampire Weekend Take Their Preppy, Indie Afropop To The Billboard Top 20 |accessdate= 2008-02-12 |last= Norris |first= John |date= 2008-02-06 |publisher=MTV ] In the album's 11th week in the UK chart, it peaked at chart position #15. [cite web |url=http://acharts.us/uk_albums_top_75/2008/22 |title= BBC Radio 1 Chart Show: The UK Top 40 Albums |accessdate= 2008-02-12 |publisher=BBC ] The album also reached #37 in Australia.The first single, "Mansard Roof", was released on
October 28 ,2007 . The second single, "A-Punk", was released in early 2008.Recording history
The album was recorded in a variety of environments including; a basement where there was "a good set up for recording drums"; a barn; the apartments of two band members and Tree Fort studio in
Brooklyn . The locations bore an effect on the sound that was produced, demonstrated by a session recorded early in 2007 at a barn, which resulted in "really echoey drums".cite web |url= http://www.nme.com/news/nme/31526 |title= Vampire Weekend reveal debut album details|accessdate= 2008-06-02 |last= |first= |date= 2008-02-06 |publisher=NME ]In October 2007, the lead singer Ezra Koenig, said that the band had "some of the tracks [...] for a long time", so they were aware of how the album would sound but that it was "just a matter of tightening it up and remixing it a little". Koenig also said that the band were "really excited" and "psyched" about two songs in particular, which were recorded around September 2007, called "I Stand Corrected" and "M79".
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The album sold 294,119 in the US as of 30/8/08.
Track listing
Official Release
#"Mansard Roof" – 2:07
#"Oxford Comma" – 3:15
#"A-Punk " – 2:17
#"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa " – 3:33
#" M79" (Vampire Weekend, Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij) – 4:14
#"Campus" – 2:55
#"Bryn" – 2:12
#"One (Blake's Got a New Face)" (Vampire Weekend, Koenig, Slinger Francisco) – 3:11
#"I Stand Corrected" – 2:38
#"Walcott" – 3:39
#"The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" – 4:03
#"Ladies of Cambridge" (Japanese edition bonus track) – 2:39
#"Arrows" (Japanese edition bonus track) – 3:04Blue CD-R Version
#"Mansard Roof"
#"Oxford Comma"
#"A-Punk"
#"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
#"Boston"
#"Campus"
#"Bryn"
#"One (Blake's Got a New Face)"
#"Walcott"
#"The Kids Don't Stand a Chance"Personnel
*Ezra Koenig – lead vocals,
guitar ,piano , hand drum
*Rostam Batmanglij – organ,chamberlin , piano,harpsichord , guitar, vocal harmonies, drum and synth programming, shaker, producer, string arrangements, engineering, mixing
*Chris Baio – bass
*Christopher Tomson –drum s, guitar
*Hamilton Berry –cello
*Jonathan Chu –violin ,viola
*Jeff Curtin – hand drums, shaker
*Wesley Miles – vocals
*Jessica Pavone – violin, viola
*Joey Roth – hand drumsCharts
Release History
References
External links
* [http://www.xlrecordings.com/vampireweekend/release/~vampire-weekend-cd/ "Vampire Weekend" on XL Recordings] - Album page on record label's site
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlgNFwoApec "Mansard Roof" music video] - as provided by record label onYouTube
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ "A-Punk" music video] - as provided by record label on YouTube
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