Vampire Weekend is an indie rock band from New York City. Despite the band members' occasionally preppy style, they are influenced by both African, pop, western, and classical music.On Saturday the band members laid down a series of playful indie-rock grooves: plinky keyboards and spidery guitar lines, rattling drums and nudging bass. One of the band’s best-loved songs, “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” seems to evoke the pleasant confusion of making out, or not making out:
"Can you stay up to see the dawn,
in the colors of Benetton?
Is your bed made? Is your sweater off?
Do you want to? Like you know I do?"
The band members all attended Columbia (online they claim to be specialists in “Upper West Side Soweto,” among other styles), and something about their preppie, polyrhythmic sound feels fresh and funny and, weirdly, inevitable. (KELEFA SANNEH)
VIDEO: Mansard Roof
http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
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