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Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Discovering inspiration in contradictions and cleverness
Sure, Vampire Weekend singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig was an English major at noted Columbia University and taught junior high English. And yeah, on the band’s new Contra album he rhymes “horchata” with “balaclava,” among other clever linguistic feats. What of it?
“It’s a criticism people try to lodge at us,” Koenig says with a resigned chuckle....