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Article: CD REVIEW: A biting debut for Vampire Weekend

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Alicia Wade
University Wire
02-06-2008
(Daily Egyptian) (UWIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A product of blog and general Internet build up, Vampire Weekend had high expectations to live up to for their debut album.

Fortunately for fans of the band and appreciators of music alike, Vampire Weekend and their self-titled, inspired-by-African-tunes debut prove that a group can indeed live up to the hype.

The New York quartet, consisting of members who attended Columbia University, created an album full of bouncy tracks drawing from west African influences, even dropping references to Congolese dance beats in song titles such as "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa." Paired with a clean sense of new-wave-meets-indie ...

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