Capricorn

VAMPIRE WEEKEND Have Their New Versatile Pop Album ‘ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US’ Out

Posted on by JL

8 April 2024


Album artwork

New York‘s sparkling pop celebs VAMPIRE WEEKEND have their new album,
their 5th one and first in 5 years, titled ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US out.

Press info: The album title is lifted directly from the album artwork, which is a photo
taken from a Subway graveyard in New Jersey in 1988 by photographer Steven Siegel.

Only God Was Above Us includes universal themes ranging from the urge to question
the world in which we live, and the quest for peace that can only be found through acceptance. The album is equal parts as direct yet complex as anything the band has
ever released, as beautiful and melodic as they’ve ever sounded but also at their
grittiest.


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Pitchfork says: “On their masterfully knotty fifth album, Vampire Weekend go on a self-mythological journey into old sounds, old haunts, and old cities to find something new within. Vampire Weekend itself is the focus of Only God Was Above Us. It is the band’s most overtly self-referential release, a collage of signature sounds and motifs dotted with allusions. It feels new and comfortable, regularly elegant and charming, calm and comforting, and, at times, foreboding. And just a bit worried.” Score: 8.5/10.

TUTV: VV have become pop experts by now. Orchestrator Ezra Koenig – who
turns 40 today – creates tantalizing tunes with different rhythms, different dynamics, different tones. He constructs songs like an architect designs artful statues. Piece by
piece, melody by melody, story by story. His songs have a sonic diversity, from catchy to capricious, from symphonic to euphonic, but always riveting and engrossing spiced with vocal melodrama. It’s called versatility. Happy birthday, Ezra Koenig, you did it again.

Key singles/clips: Capricorn / Mary Boone

– CAPRICORN –

– MARY BOONE –

ALBUM


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VV: Instagram

VAMPIRE WEEKEND Across Northern America To Promote Upcoming Album

Posted on by JL

24 February 2024


Album artwork

New York‘s dream pop darlings VAMPIRE WEEKEND are finally
returning to the scene after their 2019 album Father Of The Bride.

Their upcoming, fifth, LP is titled ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.

It’ll hit our ears on April 5.

To promote it, they have an extensive Northern American tour planned.

The two new tracks off the album, shared last week.

CAPRICORN/GEN-X COPS


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VAMPIRE WEEKEND Share Two Stellar Tracks From Their New Upcoming LP

Posted on by JL

New striking strokes

17 February 2024

New York‘s dream pop darlings VAMPIRE WEEKEND are finally
returning to the scene after their 2019 album Father Of The Bride.

Their upcoming, fifth LP, is titled ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.

It’ll hit our ears on April 5.

And here are the first 2 tracks off the record, endearing
lullaby CAPRICORN and electrifying upper GEN-X COPS.


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VV: Instagram


Have all a great weekend (promo photo)

WOLF VAN WYMEERSCH – Belgian Singer-Songwriter Offers One Of His Best Pieces With Brand New Single ‘CAPRICORN’

Posted on by JL

New striking strokes

14 November 2023


Photo by Lukian Hills

Following The Art Of Letting Go and Eazy Like Me Belgian singer-songwriter
WOLF VAN WYMEERSCH has his third single of the year out with CAPRICORN.

Wolf: “This song delves into the complex theme of loyalty conflicts, the inner divide
between descendants and parents (us and them) and the broader social division into
‘us’ and ‘them’, (fueled by social media and war).”

Capricorn is a spellbinding slow-mo musing with an ominous sonority produced
by electric bass, sober drums and eerie acoustic guitar play. It creates a trance-like atmosphere with its subtle and low-key orchestration and Van Wymeersch gloomy
vocals. Fascinating score.

One of his best songs (so far). No sign yet of a 2nd album, following
his excellent debut album The Early Years that came out last year.

LYRICS

summertime, mid-July
you’re strolling round the seashore
the manic skies heave a sigh
the crooked lines and

the grave man’s smile soothe your mind
the thrill of life for the next of kin
is it your hope or mine?
for a better life

are you one of us or are you one of them?
are you one of us or are you one of them?

in the fields or in the streets
are you laying low or back on you feet?
what do you choose:
sad happy or a happy sad?
in a better life

are you one of us or are you one of them?
are you one of us or are you one of them?

file under past, classified, it’s understood
not frowned upon but freed from your inner ghosts
to a better life

are you one of us or are you one of them?
are you one of us or are you one of them?


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