Vampire Weekend by Monika Mogi
Our recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the past seven days includes some updated work on the latest Vampire Weekend album, and a return for Death From Above 1979.
Vampire Weekend have commissioned Goose and jazz producer Sam Gendel for remixes of their 2021 track.
The two remixers have done all they can with the sparsity of the original, taking barely 90 seconds into over 20 minutes each worth of jamming.
After ending 2020 with the glorious gospel-tinged blues of That’s All You Got, Danny Lee Blackwell has announced the details of his new Night Beats album Outlaw R&B.
Welcome back, Death From Above 1979! The fuzzed out, hard-hitting pair are back with a high energy, danceable new rocker titled One + One that comes with a new video that can be seen below. This also serves as notice that a new album is en route.
Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler have set
Is 4 Lovers as the title for their forthcoming studio album, the band s first since 2017 s
Outrage! Is Now. The set is due March 26 and pre-orders for the album are available here.
As for that vibrant new beat-driven song that is serving as the intro to the forthcoming release, Grainger says, One + One is a love song. It s the karmic sequel to Romantic Rights. My wife, Eva, became pregnant not long after we started working on the song, and after hearing an early version she said, I wish this song was dancier. So I went back into the studio and re-worked the drums. As the record was taking shape, every time I would come home from the studio, the baby would start dancing in Eva s b
Death From Above 1979. Credit: Norman Wong/Press
Death From Above 1979 are back with their dancey new single ‘One + One’. Check it out below, along with the band talking to us about their upcoming fourth album ‘Is 4 Lovers’.
Their first new material since 2017’s ‘Outrage Is Now‘, ‘One + One’ plays on the brutal simplicity of their earlier material but with the dancier elements elevated and a more human aspect to the lyrics. The Canadian duo explained to
NME how the track is the “karmic sequel” to their early single and cult favourite ‘Romantic Rights’.
“The song musically started, like everything else on this record, as Jesse [F Keeler, bassist] and I working in a tiny room together,” drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger told