Vampire Weekend have uploaded to their Myspace page the song their fans have been dying to listen to. For months we’ve been listening to live versions or short clips of “White Sky”, and now you can enjoy it in its full three-minute glory over here.

We’re fascinated with Vampire Weekend. Some of us even obsessed. I think Pitchfork explained it best in their 8.8 review of Vampire Weekend:

People spend a lot of time poking around for the edgy new underground thing, convinced that plain old pop songs have been done to death. But Vampire Weekend come along like Belle & Sebastian and the Strokes each did, sounding refreshingly laidback and uncomplicated, and with simple set-ups that make good songs sound exceedingly easy. The result being not “this is mind-blowing,” or “this is catchy,” but “I have listened to this, straight through, four times a day for the past month”.

In this fast-paced music world, it’s hard to fathom that anyone spends a month listening to the same album, when you have all of this shit to listen to. But that’s how it was with Vampire Weekend. Their debut was something you could not put down, not for long anyway.

While I never expected a sophomore slump from Vampire Weekend, I was curious, or maybe a little worried about their “sound.” Was it too gimmicky to carry out a second LP? Did we want another Vampire Weekend? I’m still not sure how to answer these questions, but what I do know is that Vampire Weekend has surprised me in their willingness to take chances. Continue reading →