If Vampire Weekend's idea of a pun this time around is "Diane Young" it might be a long album, though I liked the two songs I've heard so maybe not. As Fidlar noted, these guys are getting to be a bore but whether their bore dom will manifest in music waits to be seen. Five years for three albums is kinda pushing it, right?
So is claiming your third album is the last of a trilogy -incidentally, the last of trilogies tend to be a bit iffy, ""War And Remembrance" any one? "Return Of The Jedi",? "Tres"?? Well, we will find out later today. Meanwhile this is what Ezra had to say: "'I see it as a 'here and there and back again' situation. The first album was very much tied to a specific time and place, a little more provincial maybe.
''The second album felt wide, larger, more wordly. This record I see in some ways like a return to New York, perhaps with a little more information.
''Sometimes I've imagined little trilogies of songs in my head, seeing how a song on the first, second and third albums all form some kind of Vague narrative. But we don't write rock operas – yet."
Writing about New York City might be many things but would you claim provincial is the right word.
Meanwhile, there is only one show set for the city and that at the hated Roseland (so I passed). The last time I saw em live back in January 2010 I wrote "The band doesn’t improvise, they haven’t widened their sound, they intensify untill it comes ant you in blasts of subtle yet hard sound." The time before that, I saw em at T5 and they sucked, and before that at Summerstage where they played in a torrential storm and were pretty awesome. So I blame T5 and I bet Roseland would be a nightmare.
As for the trilogy, bring on the Ewoks.