Released May 14, 2013. Modern Vampires of the City Tracklist. 1. Obvious Bicycle Lyrics. It’s been sampled a lot. And I always liked the message of the song, one blood, unity of man message. But there’s always something kind of haunting about the phrase Modern Vampires Of The City. And at first there was something that seemed kind of funny about calling a Vampire Weekend album Modern Vampires Of The City, but then I do feel like there’s some deeper resonance there too. Modern Vampires of the City debuted at on the Billboard 200 for the week of June 1st, 2013. It sold 137,000 copies during its first week to land them that position on the chart

Vampire Weekend's latest album is a worth sequel to 2010's Contra, presenting songs that truly stand on the merits of their memorable writing and lush instrumentation. Modern Vampires of the City contains something no other Vampire Weekend album has-boring songs. Trilogies don't often end well, and while there's more good than bad, it's still disappointing when listeners know what could have been.

Vampire Weekend's third album is a remarkable progression from a band that was already functioning at a high level. The songs are more spontaneous and dynamic and, along with the more lived-in sonics, Modern Vampires finds the group taking a leap forward into emotional directness. One particularly inspired ramble spins an analytic web from a friend's visit to Morocco, the history of the Strait of Gibraltar, a 1984 interview between Bob Dylan and Bono, the film The Secret of Roan Inish, and National Geographic's famed Afghan refugee cover- and not only does it make sense, it's written in a way that's funny.

Modern Vampires quite often touches brilliance, and does so without audibly straining for 'maturity' or pushing hard to be some po-faced Great American Album. The coming months will see new albums from Daft Punk, Vampire Weekend, Boards of Canada, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, and (maybe) Kanye West. Get all the details on these and other major summer releases, and listen to tracks from each one. More .

Indie rock darlings Vampire Weekend return as an older, more mature band on their superb third studio album, ‘Modern Vampires of the City. New York indie-band Vampire Weekend might have been the coolest Ivy Leaguers ever when their 2008 self-titled debut arrived. Single Oxford Comma was the ‘talk of the town’ when frontman Ezra Koenig went all ‘über-nerd’ rebelliously proclaiming Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

Similarly, Modern Vampires of the City's political allusions are also subtler than they were on Contra, where the band brandished them like college students all too willing to display their awareness of current events: Koenig sounds offhanded when he sings "though we live on the US dollar/We got our own sense of time" on "Hannah Hunt," and even the album's.

All lyrics from Modern Vampires of the City album, popular Vampire Weekend songs with tracklist and information about album. Lyrics By. Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig. Music By. Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig, Christopher Tomson.

Vampire Weekend is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2006 and currently signed to Columbia Records. The band was formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, t Rostam Batmanglij, drummer Chris Tomson, and bassist Chris Baio.