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Article: Vampire Weekend's African Transfusion
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 29, 2008
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Long story short: After graduating from Columbia, the men of
Vampire Weekend began cobbling together their debut, a giddy indie
pop album with an African backbeat. They dubbed their style "Upper
West Side Soweto" (because they're clever like that -- and because
they couldn't let poor Paul Simon have this one thing). They then
foisted it on a grateful blogosphere, which proceeded to anoint
Vampire Weekend the next big thing before their first full-length
was even released.
The finally out "Vampire Weekend" is the best album made by four
overly educated, unbearably white kids since forever, or at least