Alla fine ce l’avevano promesso : il 2019 è l’anno in cui uscirà il nuovo album dei Vampire Weekend . Dopo tanti rumor, smentite e titoli provvisori, ci ha pensato direttamente il leader Ezra Koenig a rincuorare i fan con un post su Instagram, che aspettano il seguito di Modern Vampires Of The City da 6 anni.
Partiamo dalle cose più grosse: il nuovo disco non sarà un semplice disco, bensì un doppio album di 18 brani, per una durata totale di 59 minuti. Il titolo non sarà più Mitsubishi Macchiato , bensì FOTB (sigla che al momento nasconde il vero nome dell’album) e nuovi brani verranno pubblicati ogni settimana – a partire dalla prossima – da qui all’uscita del disco, che non ha ancora una release date ufficiale.
Qui di seguito il post completo di Ezra:
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To the fans: I know that 5-6 years is considered a long time between records. Personally, I think it’s a dignified pace befitting a band that’s already placed three albums in stores but everyone has their own sense of time. (I swear the time between 3 & 4 felt shorter to me than 2 & 3. I may be in the minority on this one.) This album didn’t really take any longer to write/record than MVOTC. We just took more time on the front end to chill. I’ll admit I may have stretched out the mixing/mastering process (aka THE END) a little bit cuz spending half the day with my family & half the day at Ariel’s is my ideal life-rhythm & it’s painful to say goodbye to that rhythm. Many of you have been hungry for information and we’ve given you very little. I don’t like talking abt a project while in the middle of making it. I usually regret everything I say cuz it turns out to be wrong (so disregard anything I may have said in the past 5 years.) I thought abt making a recording diary to tide over the people leaving intense comments but…to me, the album IS the recording diary…man. It’s called “FOTB” (well those are the initials – that’s a VW tradition) and it’s 18 songs. Picked the name a few years ago. At some point early on, the album drifted from the Mitsubishi Macchiato aesthetic. It was a helpful guiding principle tho. Working titles are important too. It’s a lot of songs but they all belong there. (If you disagree, you can always say it was 6 songs too long & make a lil 12-song playlist version of it.) At first, I wanted to make two 23-song albums on some human chromosome shit but then 23&me started doing Spotify playlists and I don’t know…felt we’d been scooped. Is it a double album? The vinyl will be double so…yes? It’s about 59 minutes long. We can talk more abt that later – if u care. To me, it’s just FOTB. Anyway, we’re gonna start releasing music next week. After all that waiting, you should have the general schedule: -There will be three 2-song drops every month until the record is out. 1. hh/2021 2. s/bb 3. tl/uw. (plans can change that’s the plan) Thank you for ur patience, Ezra
Un post condiviso da Ezra Koenig (@arze) in data: Gen 17, 2019 at 1:05 PST
Insomma, dalla prossima settimana i Vampire Weekend rientreranno prepotentemente nelle nostre vite. Che bello!
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