NEW YORK’S Afro-beat indie-rockers Vampire Weekend are in town on Thursday night with a pre-Glastonbury warm-up show at the O2 Academy Bournemouth.
The show comes hot on the heels of their eagerly awaited third record, which has been three years in the making.
Currently riding high in the charts worldwide, the delay since 2010’s Contra, is a result of the band’s Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio desire to pursue their own musical side projects.
And the result shows they have brought something decent back to the party. Frontman Koenig bills the record as “the last of a trilogy” and describes it as “darker and more organic”, but existing fans will be delighted to hear it is unmistakably upbeat, showing the band’s varying influences.
If you still think of Vampire Weekend as preppy Ivy League brats, get ready to change your mind.
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