I think for any artist, your fourth album, it's a tricky thing. But no matter what, Modern Vampires was going to feel like some type of conclusion, if only because it was the last record that I made when I was in my twenties and it was number three, and naturally you think of things in terms of three. VAMPIRE WEEKEND - EZRA KOENIG: I mostly think of it as being chapter four of the same novel. Is your new album 'Father Of The Bride' a reset for you? Or another narrative existing in the same world? There are actually more interesting combinations you can come up with.ĬOUP DE MAIN: You've previously said that 'Modern Vampires Of The City' was the final part of a trilogy. You'll always have a pessimistic world view, but I've realised that pessimism and optimism are not necessarily the difference between happy/calm vs. Because once you're the type of person who's waiting for the other shoe to drop, you're never going to stop.
maybe it's a life-long journey to realise how you can be pessimistic and happy at the same time. Preceded by a trio of double A-side singles that were released monthly, Vampire Weekend return today with their first new album in six years, and although much has been made of original member Rostam Batmanglij's departure from the band, there's something for everyone on the 58 minute opus - from three duets with Danielle Haim and harmonies weaved entirely all throughout, to a pair of winsome Steve Lacy-featuring "sibling" songs, and the more classic cut 'Bambina' for those hesitating to dive headfirst into previously uncharted waters (but when eighteen songs this great await, you'd be crazy not to).Īnd with the new album, comes a promise for New Zealanders who have been hoping/wishing/praying since Vampire Weekend's one and only show at Auckland's Bruce Mason Centre back in 2010 - Koenig declares, "We got to return!"Ĭoup De Main caught up with Ezra Koenig in Los Angeles last month ahead of the release of new album 'Father Of The Bride' to talk about everything "Vampire Weekend Season", and what follows below is our discussion condensed for clarity. I've taken it off maybe a cumulative total of two days over the past six years." Did anything bad happen to you on those two days, I ask? "It's funny, it made me nervous to take it off, but it makes a lot of sense to me," he says earnestly, and all of a sudden I feel a need for my own. Some of my Moroccan friends put me onto it because it protects you from the evil eye. a Flower Moon and the title of track thirteen on the new record), all the while bestowing a contagious conviction in conversation.Īn hour prior, Koenig explains the necklace he wears: "It's a Hamsa.
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Considered and careful, but with an electric eccentricity completely his own - attracting unplanned photoshoot props and unwitting happenstance (Koenig has unknowingly scheduled today's interview on the day of the second full Moon of spring, i.e. "It's a deep reference," he concludes, alluding to a lyric in 'How Long?' ("What's the point of human beings? A sharpie face on tangerines") from their new double-album 'Father Of The Bride', before deciding that the element of fun is worth it. "It's kind of a deep cut," ponders Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig, as he contemplates drawing a sharpie face onto a tangerine at the suggestion of a minder from the band's management.
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