Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

Available in 2 Cover Variants Father of the Bride showed Vampire Weekend's willingness to challenge assumptions about their music was as important as their willingness to examine memories and history. They continue to do both brilliantly on Only God Was Above Us, albeit in radically different ways. Where Father's leisurely sprawl reflected the band's adopted home of Los Angeles, God uses pre-9/11 New York City as a framework for ten urgent musings on how history happens. Its songs are packed with thoughts and allusions that go as deep as subways and are piled as high as skyscrapers; taking its name from a 1996 New York article, "Prep School Gangsters" combines school days memories and generational cycles of poverty and prosperity with surprising joy.Though the band twines and unpacks cultural narratives more overtly than ever before, it never feels simplistic. Ezra Koenig's wordplay remains dazzling, resulting in pearls like "A staircase up to nothingness/Inside your DNA" on "Classical