I’ve had a version of Vampire Weekend’s new album (BUY IT NOW) for a while (that Blue CD-R that ended up on so many 007 best-of’s) but recently I can’t stop listening to it. It is a pop masterpiece. I love it to death. I really do. Every song is so well constructed and open and it breathes so well.
That I can listen to the whole thing without loosing interest really does a lot for me - it is calming to not be clicking here and there, fast-forward, blogging, piecing together fragments of this and that. It works as a whole and I love that.
UPDATE: I was driving around listening to this last night with friends and decided I needed to post this track. Evan pointed out how much he loves an album with an amazing closer, and this really fits the mold. It MAKES you want to listen to the whole album, because you know it is bookended so well. It really needs to be heard within the context of the album, so please don’t stop with just this mp3. Anyway, here it is: