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Growing up is mellowing out.
Some people get married and have children.
Some become loving pet parents.
In a stretch of history that feels like a fire walk, foundation and fulfillment are imperative.
Vampire Weekend is navigating the same passageway from youthful exuberance to quarter-life crises to dogged persistence.
The members of the bandmet at Columbia University as 18-year-old freshmen learning the ropes.
Ezra decided for the first time since college to breathe and take a break.
Balance and depth of perspective areFather of the Brides strengths.
The songs about uncoupling are as raw and real as the ones about marital bliss.
A particularly visionary bout of sequencing plants the spry but nihilistic How Long?
(How long till we sink to the bottom of the sea?)
Father of the Brideunfurls like a long, strange jam.
You look up every few minutes in disbelief at how you got from one point to the next.
It follows a series of airtight displays of good songwriting with an act of gobstopping sprawl.
(Koenig jokes in interviews that for a while, he considered putting out twice as much music.)
What you get instead is a splatter painting of great ideas dripping and pooling into peculiar blends.
Theres no such thing as a satisfied mind.
Southern California could use more rain.
But the most important part of the story is everything that happens afterward.
