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Modern Vampires of the City is the third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend. It was released on May 14, 2013, by XL Recordings. The group began to write songs for the album during soundchecks on the supporting concert tour for their previous album, 2010's Contra.
May 13, 2013 · Take “Step,” the third song on Vampire Weekend’s third album, Modern Vampires of the City—the record that is already forcing one-time haters of this band to rethink their entire lives. At...
May 14, 2013 · Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend’s third studio album, and was co-produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and band member Rostam Batmanglij. Rechstaid’s contributions are incredibly ...
Modern Vampires of the City is the third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend. It was released on May 14, 2013, by XL Recordings. The group began to write...
Listen to Modern Vampires of the City on Spotify. Vampire Weekend · Album · 2013 · 12 songs.
May 8, 2013 · “Modern Vampires of the City” is an album as taut and meticulous as its two predecessors, “Vampire Weekend” (2008) and “Contra” (2010), which have each sold half a million copies.
Modern Vampires of the City will go down as Vampire Weekend’s first “grown-up” album — the moment the band graduated from Oxford collar–wearing, Oxford comma–bemoaning college kids to a quartet interested in meditations on mortality, capitalism, and spirituality in a secular world.
Released in 2013, Modern Vampires of the City features hooks as clear and all-American as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty (“Unbelievers,” “Diane Young”).
May 13, 2013 · There are deftly wielded forces of darkness and light at work on Vampire Weekend’s third record. Elegiac, alive with ideas, and co-produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Modern Vampires of the City moves beyond the grabby, backpacking indie of its predecessors.
Sep 28, 2020 · A quarter-life crisis, a breakup, and shades of 'Plastic Ono Band' played into Vampire Weekend's now-classic 'Modern Vampires of the City.'
