Try Vampire Weekends’ daring new singles ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’
Vampire Weekend have dropped two new tracks from their upcoming album – ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’. Test them out under.
Arriving in the present day (February 16), the 2 new singles come following Ezra Koenig and co. saying particulars of their first album in 5 years, ‘Solely God Was Above Us’, which follows on from 2019’s ‘Father Of The Bride’.
The fifth LP from the New York band is ready to include 10 tracks and can arrive on April 5 by way of Columbia. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Now, Vampire Weekend have given followers their first style of what to anticipate from the brand new materials, dropping two singles concurrently: the swaying, subdued ‘Capricorn’ and its punk-influenced counterpart, ‘Gen-X Cops’.
With ‘Capricorn’, the monitor begins on a deceptively subdued be aware and captures a mellow but uplifting message, with honeyed melodies all through. It additionally comes with a brand new music video, directed by the band’s longtime inventive director Nick Harwood and capturing the essence of life in New York Metropolis throughout the late ‘80s.
“Capricorn/ The yr that you simply had been born/ Completed quick and the subsequent one wasn’t yours/ Too previous for dyin’ younger/ Too younger to dwell alone/ Sifting by centuries for moments of your personal,” Koenig sings within the reflective refrain. Test it out under.
As for the second single, ‘Gen-X Cops’ sees the band take a unique method – capturing a extra energised, punk-influenced monitor that reveals the opposite aspect of the album.
“Dodged the draft however can’t dodge the conflict/ Endlessly cursed to dwell insecure/
The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles/ Trembling earlier than our human nature,” the frontman sings within the second verse.
Like its counterpart, ‘Gen-X Cops’ additionally comes alongside a retro-looking music video, impressed by New York. Directed by Drew Pearce (Mission: Unimaginable – Rogue Nation, Iron Man 3), the visuals a decidedly completely different path to town’s authenticity, specializing in the evening lights and utilising the precise film-stocks Siegel utilized in 1988.
Final week, the band confirmed that the album had been recorded everywhere in the world, from Manhattan to Los Angeles to London and Tokyo.
It was stated to have been “impressed and haunted by twentieth Century New York Metropolis”, primarily produced by frontman Ezra Koenig and longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Brandon Flowers), and written majorly between 2019 and 2020.
The paintings is comprised of images taken from a subway graveyard in New Jersey again in 1988.
Shot by Steven Siegel, the album’s cowl sees a person studying a 1988 version of the New York Each day Information. The paper’s cowl story particulars an aeroplane accident in Hawaii, with the headline quoting one of many survivors: “ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.”
In different information, Vampire Weekend will play a particular album launch present on the Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas on April 8 throughout the historic whole eclipse.
They’ve additionally been introduced as headliners for this yr’s version of Hinterland Competition, and can carry out on the New Orleans Jazz Competition alongside Foo Fighters, The Rolling Stones and Neil Younger. Different appearances are scheduled for Primavera Sound and Kilby Block Celebration.