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- Summary: After a six-year break and the departure of Rostam Batmanglij, the New York indie-rock band is finally back with a fourth studio album, produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and frontman Ezra Koenig. Guests include Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors), Steve Lacy (The Internet), Danielle Haim, and Jenny Lewis.
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- Record Label: Sony Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Indie/Alternative
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Flower Moon | |
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[Ezra Koenig & Steve Lacy] Flower moon, curse the night If the sun don't make things right Then it's gonna take a year Gonna take a year Flower moon,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 33
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Mixed: 2 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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May 8, 2019It’s as good an album by a Rostam-less Vampire Weekend in 2019 as we could have possibly gotten, and the sound is a return to Vampire Weekend and Contra except arguably better with the ‘upgraded’ production and thoughtful textures. The change from indie to mainstream in the tiniest of microcosms: a Vampire Weekend album.
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May 3, 2019An album that could soundtrack an afternoon picnic or be used as fodder for a doctorate thesis on songwriting. It’s a beautifully realized cipher in an age of unsatisfying answers.
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Apr 26, 2019Depending on your mood, there’ll be songs you’d happily lop off for a more streamlined listen, but by and large, all of these songs make the patchwork much more vibrant.
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May 1, 2019The tracks are playfully, restlessly inventive.
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May 14, 2019Sure, Father of the Bride is messy and overlong—it lacks the sharp brevity of Vampire Weekend's first trilogy of albums. But it is also a smart, witty, comforting listen.
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May 6, 2019At 18 tracks and 58 minutes, Father of the Bride is by far the longest release by a band whose brevity was once one of their best characteristics. This results in a not-insignificant amount of bloat, including at least one or two songs—like the lounge jazz disaster “My Mistake”--that should have been left in the outtakes pile.
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Under The RadarDec 3, 2019Too many tracks are loosely arranged with sparse instrumentation and a sunshiny, but laid back, lounge-y jazz vibe. Most rely on a start/stop, soft/loud aesthetic that wears thin quickly and makes it seem as if these are demos as opposed to fleshed out songs. [Sep-Nov 2019, p.134]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 46
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Mixed: 5 out of 46
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Negative: 12 out of 46
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May 3, 2019Finally the most anticipated album in the decade,
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May 18, 2019
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Jun 16, 2021
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May 8, 2019Thoroughly enjoyed this album as a piece. A few are skippers but album as a whole has so much richness to get lost in.
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May 19, 2019
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Nov 15, 2022
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