New Vampire Weekend - "Cousins"

With "Horchata," Vampire Weekend offered up an even-keeled primer to their forthcoming Contra alongside an expanded instrumental palette that featured marimba, kalimba, and an eBayed Yamaha VSS-30. For fans of Ezra's more frantically paced guitar picking there's the more familial and festive "Cousins": The African instrumentation is left in favor of clanging bells and a more manic BPM, caffeinated rhythm section work and trilling guitars, yelps, more along the lines of
"California English" (which came live from California). You saw it live, now have a listen to the studio iteration.

Buy it at iTunes, get ready for these shows to be sell-outs:

12/10 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom (94.7FM "A December To Remember" concert series)
12/11 - Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena (Live 105 "Not So Silent Night 2009")
12/12 - La Jolla, CA @ RIMAC Arena/UC San Diego (FM949 "Holiday Hootenanny")
12/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheater (KROQ "Acoustic Christmas")
12/15 - Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater (KNDD The End's "Deck The Hall Ball '09")
01/12 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater
01/17 - New York, NY @ United Palace Theater
01/18 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
01/19 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

Radio, radio. Contra is out 1/12 via XL.

[Photo from Vampire Weekend @ Long Beach Theater 11/2/09 by Andrew Youssef]

Posted at 11:51 AM by amrit in MP3, Tour Dates
Tags: Vampire Weekend

9 Comments

I guess Joe Strummer isn't dead.

Posted by: First Cousin at 11/17/09 12:21 PM  | Reply
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I'm getting used to liking live versions better...at least at first...

Posted by: harmoniadinoundia at 11/17/09 12:26 PM  | Reply
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love it

Posted by: brian at 11/17/09 12:45 PM  | Reply
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this song is so great so great so great. i can't wait to see them at the bowery again

Posted by: genevieve at 11/17/09 12:49 PM  | Reply
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SSSSSSSSSkkkkaaahahahahaha.

Posted by: Cloink at 11/17/09 12:54 PM  | Reply
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Thank you

Posted by: easy at 11/17/09 3:22 PM  | Reply
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It sounds like they've been doing coke. This shit is terrible.

Posted by: Jack at 11/18/09 2:24 AM  | Reply
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That should be no surprise Jack. Their shit is always terrible.

Posted by: T.O.Snob at 11/18/09 12:48 PM  | Reply
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Vampire Weekend is hilariously divisive, and I don't care that people don't get the hype. Calling all of their "shit" terrible though, is a "Republican Tea Party" level of sad and funny.

Posted by: JpegMasterJesse at 11/18/09 9:26 PM  | Reply
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