Here's a thought: Let's make Vampire Weekend Hoover's official house band. Admit it: you think they're cute, right? They all went to Columbia University. They're freakin' Ivy Leaguers. Look, they're surrounded by a wall of books ! I mean, it's like they were manufactured to be loved by U of C students. They're like a boy band for brainiacs. Their music is a poppy, percolating mish-mash of lots of influences, a little bit Talking Heads, a little bit Jens Lekman, and, just like all the lazy music journalists and bloggers said, a little bit Graceland-era Paul Simon. The song M79 has a little bit o' string quartet thrown in, just to make it even more suitable to the type of college student who prefers chablis over plastic cups of beer.
But the thing that really makes Vampire Weekend Hoovery is their lyrics, where they refer to ion displacement and grammatical disputes and falling in love with English professors who teach the romantics. I mean, have they been listening to our conversations at the Hoover table?
Here's one of their songs, Ottoman. This widget only seems to work with Mozilla (not Explorer; I guess that Bill Gates isn't so smart after all).
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