Vampire Weekend Share Plan For New Double Album and New Music

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Indie rock superstars Vampire Weekend have been keeping quiet for the last few years after their award-winning 2013 effort Modern Vampires Of The City. Now, six years after releasing their last record, Vampire Weekend have shared plans for a new double album and new music coming this year!

On a post to his Instagram account, frontman Ezra Koenig shared many updates about the band and what fans should expect from them over the coming months. The record is initials FOTB, though the exact title is uncertain as of now. Koenig announced plan to start releasing music next week, with two songs being dropped for the next three months until the record is out (Koenig shared the initials of the tracks planned to be released: the first bunch is ‘hh‘ and ‘2021‘ (which should be out next week), followed by ‘s‘ and ‘bb,’ and finally ‘tl‘ and ‘uw’). Read his full post here:

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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

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Koenig also briefly detailed the process behind the record and what’s taken the band so long to return with new material. According to him, the band took a lot more time to just relax and establish a rhythm to their music, balancing it with life. Koenig himself said that he may have “may have stretched out the mixing/mastering process” just because he was living his ideal rhythm every day. The record is also 59-minutes long and features 18 songs.

Excited for new Vampire Weekend music? This will be Vampire Weekend’s first record without founding member Rostam Batmanglij, who left the band in 2016. Be sure to stick around so you don’t miss our review of the new tracks and album.