Lads, we need to make the Hayes, London show the party show. Anyone going, we're in it together! It's your only chance to see this live as everything else sold out months ago, you can get tickets here if you dare: tinyurl.com/kneukve2

Their first trilogy is still one of my favorite three-album run. You can clearly see their growth and willingness to make new sounds, without abandoning what's make them special...

Vampire Weekend, some of the best songwriting out there, hands-down, brilliant arrangements, it’s a crime how underrated they are in this ignorant world, IMo

I really love Vampire Weekend. Clever lyrics, catchy chord progression and interesting arrangements. They’re a breath of fresh air.

"Fuck knows what that was played on" is an elite Hawkins quote

Love this! The melody is a refreshing change and throwback to the 1950s or 1960s when I was a teenager or young twenties. I'm 84 in May. Love your breakdown of the chords and sound effects Justin.Theyv add another dimension to this cool track 😊❤

“My guitar’s out of tune… who cares? Not me, otherwise I’d tune it, wouldn’t I” is the funniest thing I’ve heard in months

Vampire Weekend is amazing. 4 albums and they're all great. They're fantastic in concert too.

Excited to see new music from them. Their third album, Modern Vampires of the City, is a goddam masterpiece.

This is really affecting for a former New Yorker. The video clips span from the "Bronx is Burning" NYC to later in the '90s, but they're all scenes that drew creative folks to New York in the days when the average American would think moving there was flat-out insane. The original Coney Island, handball courts, the WTC (always tough to see), the Playland sign (!), straphangers, graffiti and grit. I'm not in Vampire Weekend's target market ("indie rock" bands play arenas now?), but sonically this is a total homage to underground rock of the late '80s/early '90s. Dinosaur Jr, but also Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth and Polvo and Slint and a bunch of other post-hardcore bands. The opening images where (I presume) singer Ezra Koenig floats sideways into a subway car is the hint to where this goes. That's a "redbird" train -- the longest-running NYC subway trains that were exclusively used on the especially-narrow 6 line. They were finally taken out of commission in the late-'90s. Rather than going to scrap, they were taken south to warmer parts of the ocean and submerged to allow for the creation of new reefs. Very subtle metaphor, but so great to see one of those cars. Those bumpy, rackety trains were straight out of The Warriors.

This is weird, I just listened to Oxford Comma yesterday for the first time in 10yrs or so!

I love Vampire Weekend! And of the greatest Indie bands out there.

Very theatrical today ' daaaahling ' wonderful 🥳⭐️ I'm a Capricorn .... I feel obliged to like it

That was the best performance of the theme song

I'm here for the Dinosaur Jr reference.

Oooh! Starts a little like Cat Stevens before morphing into shades of Art Garfunkel, and ultimately disrupting into their own distinctive style. Love! ❤

I like their new song called “Classical” the best out of the new songs they’ve released from the new album

Thank you so much for covering this one 🎉🎉🎉

I agree there is something vocally in common with Terry Jacks, and the melancholic but happy vibe too. Today, we learnt Justin played the bassoon!

Chord sequence sounds a bit like Cat Stevens's 'How Can I Tell You.' Especially with the descending line

For the first time in a while i already have this one on my playlist ahead of watching your video (unlike most of my playlist😅 )🙌

05:53 😂😂😂😂 06:08 , 07:08 ...OK, the last 2 minutes before the video ends are just... 🤣🤣🤣 Nice one!👍👍👍👍👍❤

Wow, feels amazing to be so loved

You are very entertaining Thank you ❤

Gosh these breakdowns are informative and hilarious ❤

Thank you Justin for your take on the new VW song, I love it! 🥰And for introducing me to the beautiful word 'ostinato', which I shall casually say to my guitar playing son next time he's home from Uni! I now know that's what he plays 😂

Really like that, not listened to them for ages. Thanks! Now got an earworm of Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun a song that always makes me feel really uneasy for some reason ...

This is pretty dope. It kinda sounds like a cross between MGMT/Kid Cudi (Pursuit of Happiness), Eels (Novocaine for the Soul), Pixies, and Simon & Garfunkel. Will be adding this to one of my playlists.

Best album Ive heard in a LONG time just WOW

Vampire Weekend pushes the line of making stuff that is too noisy (like the 2nd and 3rd chorus) of this song and somehow they are perfectly aware where the line is at all times. They do not miss.

I’m a working musicien and when I get home from a gig - generally pretty drunk - man I love your videos!

I like it, I like the distortion- never heard of these guys so will investigate on Spotify. Thanks Justin.

Oh I love it ❤

Did it sort of sound like Simon & Garfunkel? Or Belle & Sebastian? Some sort of ampersand group...

Thank You JH for FINALLY covering Vampire Weekend! They’re a brilliant songwriters and crush it live. Going to the show in NashVegas this October!

535,000🎉🎉🎉….again more subscribers ❤

Reminds me of Novocaine For The Soul by the Eels

Love Vampire Weekend. This new album is phenomenal.

Good to see a song getting you excited

5:35 Brilliant impersonation of 90’s internet dial-up tone there, Jus! 😂😂😂

Very beautiful..it reminds me a lot Smokie " have you ever seen the rain? great videoJustin

The bassoon! We would like to hear this Again.

For those of us who can't get to the UK for the tour, will there be video of the shows on the channel? Super interested to see how the shows play out.

You nailed it based on all the comment suggestions…familiarity..about sums it up! Love to you for the laughs as always

Someone needs to make a short of just Justin mimicking the odd noises from this song. Hilarious

Interesting. I haven't heard them before. Loved your sound effects, lol.

Touch of Bombay Bicycle Club in there, sound checking in "Club Distortion", downtown Transylvania.

My love for you, young master Hawkins, has been burgeoning apace for these few weeks since I subscribed. Now that you name checked the most excellent Dinosaur Jr, I feel it has bern consummated. Well played sir, and i bid you good day.

Your little acoustic meandering sounded beautiful Justin! Could you turn that into something for me darling?😻👍💕

I like it! Never really got into vampire weekend but might listen to a bit more now. Also, I think this song sounds like something you'd hear on a charity tv advert, still like it tho😅

Awesome video

I love Vampire Weekend.

Ostinato! The music video is really cool too.

Hi Justin .. my mainest, main man! Another superb synopsis, and a good review too. Har har! Nufluv mate, Pete 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Saw these guys with the "Wee Wee on MaMa band" in Croydon when they were first starting out. Great gig!!

Would love to hear what you think of the new St Vincent song... I get the feeling you might dig it.

Art Garfunkel mate innit

3:48 i wish you had kept playing. It was so good

Alright I laughed a few times. Im hooked into watching these.

Best version of rides again theme song ever👍

The only band (that I know) that makes a better album than the last with every release. Great analysis, I've heard these songs several times but you dove deeper than I ever dared to :). Vampire Weekend is definitely in my top 3 bands of all time, and constantly battling for the #1 spot, and often winning the battle.

As I don't live in London, I was obliged to Wiki Hayes. It has an Interesting history. Thanks, I wouldn't know about it otherwise. 😊

❤❤❤❤ Mr Hawkins!!!!

Does 'more than words' by Extreme fit over this chording?

5:00 that part you couldn't place...it's from lots of songs..even one of my own...but I think I've heard it in a Strokes song. Was it off one of their tracks from First Impressions of Earth??

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This song, that you reviewed does reference a much older song, ‘Seasons in the Sun’ by Terry Jacks (1974) 10 years before Ezra Koenig was born. Ezra’s voice is even similar to Terry’s. From his bio, it did read that his father had quite an interest in music so maybe some of ‘Seasons in the Sun’ is used in this way as chord structure in this new song by Vampire Weekend.

Sounded Wilco-esque circa "A Ghost is Born" with just a bit of Ian Anderson melody lifted from Skating Away on the Thin Ice of A New Day.

I do like Vampire Weekend. Harmony Hall was joyous

The title of this vid got me lol. Saw the thumbnail and it looked like David Byrne aka Talking Heads, so let's see what's up with Justin.

We all long for great songwriting, memorable melodies and sweet production… Not really sure why we got away from that. It feels like most artists are making their best effort to make music that most people aren't going to like.

I think i read that the really squeaky bits qre played on a pedal steel

Hi Justin Hawkins!

One for the question of the week. (Or however often you do them haha) What is the back story of how you got into learning the guitar? If you had lessons or self taught etc? Of course you could go over this in your up and coming tour (that i have tickets for at the Glass house in Gateshead).

I heard a bit of Karma Police in the little line cliche

04:28 yeahh! OSTINATO babyyyyy!!! 😙😜

Your rendition made me think of sitting here at midnight from phantasm

i like this show.

Video suggestion, pond-neon river. That bit you couldn't figure out, dan fogelberg-longer

After digging into the vault of my brain, that melody sounds like 'Jessie' by Joshua Kadison

Do you have a contest for your show in Hayes to win tickets?

A little LAUREL CANYON vibe!

Cool to hear that Phil Spector treatment. Nice and weird for a pop tune. Have you done Friend of a Friend…another throwback that is weird in its own unique way.

always have been good :)

American Pie comes to mind, also that one Westlife song

I wanna hear a studio version of Meandering Through Em.

Yes

The Ostinato Maestro, Justin Hawkins

They really have the vibe of Primitve Radio Gods in parts of the song (to my ear anyway). I like it :)

Thank you for reviewing my 2nd favourite band.

What did you think of the Gibson Garage Justin? Did you buy anything?

One of my favorite bands of the modern age.

Wait until you hear the next single Classical.

This and Kim Gordon's new album are my favourites releases this year.

5:10 I feel like you’re thinking of Tiny Dancer. Very similar harmony

I liked the early 2000 stuff they tended to use it on inbetweeners Pretty unusual and memorable.

Again, I grew up in Hayes, it is the worst town in the country. Takeaways won’t deliver on the estate I grew up on.

The whole album is a banger. Ya heard.

Also I had a question for comments day: Which do you enjoy more-- the process of creating new music or the performance aspect of music?

Sounds very familiar, but I don't know what🤷‍♂️ .Not what I expected from a group with Vampire in their name