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]
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I guess Joe Strummer isn’t dead.
I’m getting used to liking live versions better…at least at first…
love it
this song is so great so great so great. i can’t wait to see them at the bowery again
SSSSSSSSSkkkkaaahahahahaha.
Thank you
It sounds like they’ve been doing coke. This shit is terrible.
That should be no surprise Jack. Their shit is always terrible.
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.