Vampire Weekend playing the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester (Gary Mather for LIve4ever)
Ezra Koenig guested at-home on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday, performing a medley of songs from Vampire Weekend‘s 2019 album Father Of The Bride.
Koenig showed off his piano skills, and equally impressive studio set-up, for performances of Flower Moon, Stranger and Big Blue – taken from one of Live4ever’s top albums of last year:
“For a man who claims to obsess over the smallest detail, throwing carefree ideas into a mix which doesn’t always work – cue the odd, incongruous blast of sound on the otherwise saccharine How Long? – is surely something more than mere adjustment,” our review reads. “It helps to have the talent to produce neo-classics seemingly as an afterthought of course, the uplifting gospel of Harmony Hall and rustic pastoralism of Stranger hinting directly at a renaissance few guessed was even needed.”
“The ace in the hole, though perhaps intentionally ,doesn’t sound like one at first: Unbearably White might have been a put down to the snide put downs of all these years, but instead it’s disarmingly simple, in possession of a subliminal chorus so addictive it should come with a Surgeon General’s warning.”
