Vampire Weekend is back after six years with "Father of the Bride", a multi-layered album both musically and lyrically that washes over the listener like a ray of spring sunshine at the end of a long winter of no new music. But listen closely to the lyrics there's a darker undercurrent amid the breezy harmonizing, hand claps and up-tempo jovial toe-tappers. "I don't want to live like this," lead singer Ezra Koenig confesses on the first single "Harmony Hall", ''but I don't want to die." On "This Life", Koenig chirpily sings about pain "as natural as the rain," crumbling dreams, cheating partners and "this life and all its suffering." "Oh Christ, am I good for nothing?" he...
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