Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend has received a lot of hype starting well before they released this album. They are actually a really good follow-up to The Little Ones. Whereas The Little Ones are performing with Ra Ra Riot on their current tour, Vampire Weekend actually derived their name from a movie by the same name they did with Ra Ra Riot. They also are a very infectious pop band. That's pretty much where the similarities end, though. Vampire Weekend has a more varied influence more like The Cat Empire or fellow New Yorkers White Rabbits than the straight pop sound of The Little Ones. These three bands all share one influence as well: Ska. Madness definitely comes to mind when listening to this album. The other influence is South African music which is most apparent in how Chris Tomson sounds more like a percussionist than a drummer, many have made the comparison to Paul Simon's Graceland. All-in-all Vampire Weekend has a very well crafted sound, producing a clean and crisp album that's so good it's hard to pinpoint the best songs. Oxford Comma, A-Punk, Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, One, I Stand Corrected and The Kids Don't Stand a Chance are currently my favorites, but it does little to tell you that since they make up half the album.