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- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for the indie rock trio Vampire Weekend was co-produced with Ariel Rechtshaid.
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- Record Label: Columbia Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Apr 4, 2024Hope is the longest VW song ever at eight minutes, but it never meanders despite its repetition. Instead it points toward the restless creativity that the band have never lacked, and that Only God Was Above Us demonstrates all too clearly.
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UncutApr 3, 2024By comparison [to 2019's Father Of The Bride], Only God Was Above Us is off its meds - grimier, sonically and spiritually; more compressed, more stressed. Lyrically, conflict is everywhere and nothing is stable. .... It would all be so much showing-off if the narrative ache Koenig displays wasn't so palpable, and the craft wasn't so meticulous. These guys listen hard, sometimes applying different processing effects on each word, even syllable. [May 2024, p.33]
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Apr 3, 2024Only God Was Above Us is more than another Vampire Weekend album, it is an amalgamation of their storied career and experiences wrapped up in a fearless take on what their genre can become.
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MojoApr 3, 2024Only God Was Above Us feels like a record made by a band once more comfortable in their skins. [May 2024, p.86]
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Apr 4, 2024Lyrically, then, it’s a record characterised by its pessimism, yet musically it’s among their most joyful.
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Apr 4, 2024It’s a record that sucks in all of the band’s best-known sounds and blows them out in a wild confetti blast of twisty-indie-anxious-punk-jazzy-joy.
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Apr 3, 2024Only God Was Above Us is ultimately just another (very good) Vampire Weekend album rather than a radical shift. It essentially sees the band dressing up their patented medium-paced, occasionally frantic, symphonic rock in see-through disguises.