{"id":804712,"date":"2020-02-28T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959536"},"modified":"2020-02-28T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:30:40","slug":"vampire-weekend-unveil-three-father-of-the-bride-bonus-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-unveil-three-father-of-the-bride-bonus-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend Unveil Three \u2018Father of the Bride\u2019 Bonus Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/10433717n.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vampire-weekend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vampire-weekend\" data-tag=\"vampire-weekend\">Vampire Weekend<\/a> shared three songs \u2014 including one that features Jude Law reading a 19th century Scottish poem \u2014 that were previously only available on the Japanese edition of their 2019 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-828746\/\"><i>Father of the Bride<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of the three tracks, only \u201cHouston Dubai\u201d is an original, and it is vintage Vampire Weekend. It boasts a peppy guitar strum, stomp-and-clap percussion and lyrics from Ezra Koenig that tackle strained love, sleepless delirium and the ennui of late capitalism as he chronicles the travels of a businessman between the two titular, oil-rich cities.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31--Srh9CIM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the other songs is a dusty and tender cover of Mickey Newbury\u2019s 1968 track, \u201cI Don\u2019t Think Much About Her No More,\u201d while \u201cLord Ullin\u2019s Daughter\u201d finds Law reading Thomas Campbell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/poem\/lord-ullins-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">1809 poem of the same name<\/a> over delicate piano riffing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLbIe83CcS4?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vampire Weekend released <i>Father of the Bride <\/i>last May, marking their first album since 2013\u2019s <i>Modern Vampires of the City<\/i>, as well as their first without co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij (he still contributed some production to the LP). Last month, <i>FOTB<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2020-the-complete-winners-list-943246\/\">won Best Alternative Music Album<\/a> at the Grammys, while it was also up for Album of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vampire Weekend will kick off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-2020-tour-dates-881338\/\">new leg<\/a> of their North American tour in support of <i>FOTB<\/i> May 28th in Burlington, Vermont.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-bonus-tracks-jude-law-959536\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Weekend shared three songs \u2014 including one that features Jude Law reading a 19th century Scottish poem \u2014 that were previously only available on the Japanese edition of their 2019 album, Father of the Bride. Of the three tracks, only \u201cHouston Dubai\u201d is an original, and it is vintage Vampire Weekend. It boasts a [&hellip;]<\/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-804712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 08:11:24","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\/804712","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=804712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}