Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (April 5, 2024) • Page 16

Can't stop playing this one through. I Think Ur a Contra has been the undisputed champ for album closers for me. Can't believe 5 records deep they put up a contender in Hope. 8 minutes and whenever it ends I want it to be longer.

@Serenity Now Agreed on the Piano being the MVP of this one. FOTB gave the guitar its moment and this one is all about piano parts.

 

This didn’t grab me on first listen unfortunately. I hear what they’re doing and while it’s intellectually interesting, the songs just aren’t doing it for me.

 

Surfer reminds me Somersault-era Beach Fossils

 

This and Waxahatchee really fighting it out for AOTY.

 

this is the shit and connect is top shit

 

Yeah connect is the best song I’ve heard in a long while.

 

The record I’ve thought the most about while listening to this (especially Connect) is The Strokes Comedown Machine. Especially “One Way Trigger”, I think that song has proven to be so ahead of its time.

 

Nice Track by Track breakdown

 

I can't stop listening to 'Hope'

 

Pravda and Hope is one hell of a way to end the album

 

I dont think I can confidently say Hope is my favorite VW album ender yet, but Ice Cream Piano and Hope are my favorite book ends on a record they've done. It was striking the first time I hit play and Ezra has done a bunch of press talking about how strongly he felt about them as first and last.

 

Ice Cream Piano live is gonna be a blast

 

That opening guitar riff in gen x cops live would make me drop kick someone

 

remind me not to go see them with you then

 

Weren't they streaming the Eclipse show today?

 

Answering my own question: Vampire Weekend Livestreams - VEEPS

 

God this rules.i can't wait to see them live. I'm also heavily considering a trip to Red Rocks to see them this July.

 

audio mix pretty rough on the Livestream

 

sounds better now. this rules

 

holy shit this version of Sunflower

 

Crunchy funk with sax --> high speed. SICK.

 

Ezra looks like he's 22....lol, amazing.

 

show absolutely solidifying my FOTB is goated opinions. i always found the 'it's VW's jam era!!' take annoyingly inaccurate about anything other than set length, but damn these songs translate live soooo well

 

of course as I say that they're doing another extended jam on a FOTB song

 

lmao that was sick as hell tho!