A 2008-2013 közötti három sikeralbuma után a New York-i Vampire Weekend indie pop zenekar hat évig váratta rajongóit a folytatással. Időközben a basszista Chris Baio két szólólemezzel, Chris Tomson dobos a Dams Of The West nevű projektjével vakációzott, a multiinstrumentalista-producertag Rostam Batmanglij kilépett a kvartettből, a dalszerző-gitáros-énekes Ezra Koenig pedig végül a trióra fogyott együttes másik két tagja nélkül írta meg és vette fel a sok vendég bevonásával 2019-re elkészült Father Of The Bride című negyedik VW-albumot (a turnéra szerencsére már Baio és Tomson ritmusszekciója is visszatért mellé). Most újabb fél évtizeddel később, a 2024. április 5-re bejelentett Only God Was Above Us című ötödik Vampire Weekend-sorlemezen már mindhárman szerepelnek, és ma két klipdalt is bemutattak beharangozónak.
Az ismét Ariel Rechtshaid sztárproducerrel rögzített új albumról elsőként közzétett Capricorn és Gen-X Cops című dalokban Chris Baio is fel van tüntetve basszusgitárosként, Chris Tomson viszont az előbbi számban nem szerepel, csak az utóbbiban, de ott nemcsak dobos, hanem társszerző is volt a frontember mellett, sőt társproducerként is fel van tüntetve Koenig és Rechtshaid mellett. A dalok klipjei közül az előbbit Nick Harwood, az utóbbit Drew Pearce rendezte.
Can't reach the moon now
Can't turn the tide
The world looked different
When God was on your side
Who builds the future?
Do they care why?
I know you're tired of trying
Listen clearly, you don't have to try
Capricorn
The year that you were born
Finished fast
And the next one wasn't yours
Too old for dying young
Too young to live alone
Sifting through centuries
For moments of your own
Alone and wounded
But in my prime
I called the hospital
They didn't have the time
I'd seen it coming
It's no surprise
I know you're tired of trying
Listen clearly
You don't have to try
Capricorn
The year that you were born
Finished fast
And the next one wasn't yours
Too old for dying young
Too young to live alone
Sifting through centuries
For moments of your own
A hundred dollars
On someone's dime
I looked for answers there
They weren't mine to find
Good days are coming
Not just to die
I know you're tired of trying
Listen, baby
You don't have to try
Capricorn
The year that you were born
Finished fast
And the next one wasn't yours
Too old for dying young
Too young to live alone
Sifting through centuries
For moments of your own
Capricorn
The year that you were born
Finished fast
And the next one wasn't yours
Too old for dying young
Too young to live alone
Sifting through centuries
For moments of your own
Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe
Forever cursed to live unrelaxed
We make no bones
A house is not a home
And a home is nowhere we can stay
Dodged the draft but can't dodge the war
Forever cursed to live insecure
The curtain drops
A gang of Gen-X cops assembles
Trembling before our human nature
It wasn't built for me
It's your academy
But in my time, you taught me how to see
Each generation makes its own apology
Welcome back, my oldest friend
Are you cursed to depart again?
Your ways and means
Eternally obscene
And always looking for obscenity and hatred
It wasn't built for me
It's your academy
But in my time, you taught me how to see
Each generation makes its own apology
It wasn't built for me
It's your academy
But in my time, you taught me how to see
Each generation makes its own apology
It's by design and consequentially
Each generation makes its own apology
az új nagylemez borítója és számlistája:
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (2024)
összevetésként itt a 2019-es Father Of The Bride album a videóival:
Hold You Now (feat. Danielle Haim)
Harmony Hall
Bambina
This Life
Big Blue
How Long?
Unbearably White
Rich Man
Married In A Gold Rush (feat. Danielle Haim)
My Mistake
Sympathy
Sunflower (feat. Steve Lacy)
Flower Moon (feat. Steve Lacy)
2021
We Belong Together (feat. Danielle Haim)
Stranger
Spring Snow
Jerusalem, New York, Berlin
Déri Zsolt
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