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As Liquid crystal display Soundsystem when prophesied, the sizzling New York bands have now traded their guitars and acquired … sitars? Perhaps, anyway, according to new information about Vampire Weekend’s upcoming album. The band just started out a vinyl club for previous are living sets, and the very first document in the sequence, Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 01, is now out. In a newsletter accompanying its release, drummer Chris Tomson dropped a bomb about what singer Ezra Koenig has been up to. “Ezra took a raga singing lesson with Terry Riley in rural Japan and wrote what he considers to be 7 of his all-time prime 10 best tunes.” (As for Tomson, he bought sober and had young ones, whilst bassist Chris Baio served on a jury “with a renowned actress’ spouse.”)
Minimalist, raga-motivated Vampire Weekend would not fully be out of left area right after the jammy, stoned-out Father of the Bride, but however, inform us you could’ve predicted this a person. Tomson continued that currently being ready “to link, jawbone, and jam” with his bandmates without having obligation reminded him of their development at Columbia College. “I personally located an immense peace and enjoyment from creating with the fellas like we had in the Ruggles days,” he wrote. “The vibe was robust.” (FOTB producer Ariel Rechtshaid has been publishing about recording with the band, much too.)
And the new album is “close to performed,” Tomson included in a P.S., promising news by the end of the yr. “I feel like it just may possibly be our best still,” he wrote. “10 tunes, no skips.”
