{"id":792142,"date":"2019-01-17T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780857"},"modified":"2019-01-17T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:57:06","slug":"vampire-weekend-ezra-koenig-hints-at-new-lp-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-ezra-koenig-hints-at-new-lp-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend: Ezra Koenig Hints at New LP Details"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ezra Koenig<\/a> served up some fuzzy details about Vampire Weekend<\/a>\u2019s upcoming fourth album, as well as an explanation about why it took them so long to make it, in an Instagram<\/a> post Thursday. He\u2019s not ready yet to share the record\u2019s title, but he did offer up its initials: FOTB<\/em>. The record, due out this year, will contain 18 songs and clock in at 59 minutes; the vinyl edition will come out on two LPs. They\u2019ll serve up a first taste of the record next week, with the group unveiling three two-song posts monthly until its release (which suggests a spring release date).<\/p>\n

The vague song details are as follows: The first batch is known as \u201chh\u201d\/\u201d2021\u201d; the second is \u201cs\u201d\/\u201dbb\u201d and the final will be \u201ctl\u201d\/\u201duw.\u201d With this announcement, Koenig added the caveat, \u201cPlans can change, but that\u2019s the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the reason it\u2019s taken so long for the group to follow up 2013\u2019s Modern Vampires of the City<\/em>, Koenig said he doesn\u2019t view five to six years as a notable gap between albums. \u201cPersonally, I think it\u2019s a dignified pace befitting a band that\u2019s already placed three albums in stores, but everyone has their own sense of time,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI swear the time between three and four felt shorter to me than two and three. I may be in the minority on this one.\u201d And with all things being relative, he wrote that creating FOTB<\/em> didn\u2019t take any longer than its predecessors; he did admit to taking a more leisurely pace when mixing and mastering the record though to spend time with family.<\/p>\n

He also felt the need to justify releasing an 18-song album. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of songs but they all belong there,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf you disagree, you can always say it was six songs too long and make a lil\u2019 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\u2019t know \u2026 [I] felt we\u2019d been scooped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vampire Weekend\u2019s last two albums have made it to Number One on the Billboard<\/em> chart, and both have been certified gold. Their debut, 2008\u2019s Vampire Weekend<\/em>, is certified platinum.<\/p>\n

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To the fans:\u2063 I know that 5-6 years is considered a long time between records. Personally, I think it\u2019s a dignified pace befitting a band that\u2019s 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.) \u2063 \u2063 This album didn\u2019t really take any longer to write\/record than MVOTC. We just took more time on the front end to chill. I\u2019ll 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\u2019s is my ideal life-rhythm & it\u2019s painful to say goodbye to that rhythm.\u2063 \u2063 Many of you have been hungry for information and we\u2019ve given you very little. I don\u2019t 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\u2026to me, the album IS the recording diary\u2026man.\u2063 \u2063 It\u2019s called \u201cFOTB\u201d (well those are the initials \u2013 that\u2019s a VW tradition) and it\u2019s 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.\u2063 \u2063 It\u2019s 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\u2019t know\u2026felt we\u2019d been scooped.\u2063 \u2063 Is it a double album? The vinyl will be double so\u2026yes? It\u2019s about 59 minutes long. We can talk more abt that later \u2013 if u care. To me, it\u2019s just FOTB.\u2063 \u2063 Anyway, we\u2019re gonna start releasing music next week. After all that waiting, you should have the general schedule:\u2063 \u2063 -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\u2019s the plan)\u2063 \u2063 Thank you for ur patience,\u2063 Ezra<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ezra Koenig served up some fuzzy details about Vampire Weekend\u2019s upcoming fourth album, as well as an explanation about why it took them so long to make it, in an Instagram post Thursday. He\u2019s not ready yet to share the record\u2019s title, but he did offer up its initials: FOTB. The record, due out this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:44:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}