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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
Fully realized debut albums like Vampire Weekend come along once in a great while, and these songs show that this band is smart, but not too smart for their own good.
100
This is emotionally pulling music, but they instill such a vivid, literary sense to it that I find hard to ignore.
88
Bring any baggage you want to this record, and it still returns nothing but warm, airy, low-gimmick pop, peppy, clever, and yes, unpretentious
80
Vampire Weekend take their Ivy League education, their New Jersey upbringing, and turn it outward – arms open, hurling themselves across the freshly cut college grass, shirts creasing under the afternoon sun.
80
Vampire Weekend have created a record which includes the kind of structures, influences and classical elements that your average Hard-Fi fan isn’t likely to understand, but present them in such a way that doesn’t yell ‘LOOK AT US, WE’RE USING COMPLICATED STUFF AND YOU’RE LISTENING TO RUBBISH COD REGGAE! HA!’.
67
The young band's saving grace is compactness, which not only saves thousands of dollars in kora-player and backup-singer bills, but also keeps things alert and accessible.
EDITTT! OH FUCK YEAH RIGHT WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO HIT ZERO GET READY BOYYYYYYY
EDIT EDIT: Dude I'll take an announcement at this point
EDIT: we're officially in the negatives now... Your move Ezra...
For every week that LP4 isn't released, I'm deducting five points
EDIT EDIT: Dude I'll take an announcement at this point
EDIT: we're officially in the negatives now... Your move Ezra...
For every week that LP4 isn't released, I'm deducting five points
Don't be fooled, these Ivy League kids know how to use their worldly knowledge to make more than music from trendy elitist subgenres that permeate the college scene. Between the minimalist African drums, light synths and their poignant soft (yet fast!) guitars, you get a sense that Vampire Weekend is making something more than just a fad here. On their debut, Vampire Weekend forms an upbeat take on the indie rock genre that can get rather lifeless at its worst moments.
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #2 | / | Consequence of Sound |
| #3 | / | Paste |
| #4 | / | NME |
| #4 | / | Q Magazine |
| #6 | / | musicOMH |
| #7 | / | A.V. Club |
| #7 | / | Pitchfork |
| #7 | / | The Guardian |
| #9 | / | No Ripcord |
| #10 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #13 | / | Treble |
| #14 | / | PopMatters |
| #14 | / | Spin |
| #15 | / | FACT Magazine |
| #34 | / | Drowned in Sound |
MISC LISTS
Track List
- Mansard Roof
- Oxford Comma
- A-Punk
- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
- M79
- Campus
- Bryn
- One (Blake's Got a New Face)
- I Stand Corrected
- Walcott
- The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
- Ladies of Cambridge (Japanese edition bonus track)
- Arrows (Japanese edition bonus track)
In Library (85)
