Best New Band: Vampire Weekend

If you haven't heard them, please go here:
www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
or
www.vampireweeked.com

These guys have been blowing up the music blogs (I'm looking at you Stereogum), for about a year now. The self titled "Vampire Weekend" just dropped 1/29/08.

How does it sound? In their own words:

'The name of this band is Vampire Weekend. We are specialists in the following styles: "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", "Upper West Side Soweto", "Campus", and "Oxford Comma Riddim."'

Unpretentious, professional, African-laced pop. Sounds like? Talking Heads, I suppose, but also like the Shins. But really they just sound like themselves.

I've been sick this past week (still a bit delirious) and this album has been the joyous soundtrack to carry me back home.

This is a CD you can put on and listen to for a year straight.

Bravo, gentlemen of Vampire Weekend.

FP