1. Mansard Roof
2. Oxford Comma
3. A-Punk
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. M79
6. Campus
7. Bryn
8. One (Blake's Got A New Face)
9. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. Kids Don't Stand A Chance

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Vampire Weekend
After hearing A-Punk what sane music lover couldn't want this album?

But with few tracks being as fun or catchy I was slightly disappointed. The album failed to make me bop continuously for the 34.2 minutes like i was expecting instead bringing out a slightly less catchy side. It's still listenable... Just not as listenable as I wanted it to be.

I'd give it a 7/10 in all.

This is fantastic !
This is a great album, a really chipper album. I recommend this if you like good music and are cool like me.


Probably the best album I've bought in years
5* reviews are probably overdone and that might be the only reason I haven't awarded one here. I found the band through amazon after shopping for the ting ting's (they're quirky and fun, too check them out) only knowing the song 'oxford comma' which I managed to preview on the net. I got the album and listened to the whole thing and not to put too fine a point on it - its pretty much all fantastic.

The style is a kind of upbeat indie sound but quite neat (a polite way of saying not all indie bands know their way around their instruments), infused with a variety of exotic influences, the african ones have been mentioned. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, despite the lead singer's quirky vocals sounds like a Paul Simon song and I don't know if they're copying his style or just his influences, the others mix the folk tunes more seamlessly in to a modern streamlined form, A-Punk will be familiar to many who think they've never heard of the band but Oxford Comma is an incredibly catchy tune.

I don't think there IS such a thing as 'too quirky' as one other reviewer claims and besides this is hardly strangeness for its own sake (for that check out philip glass) this is just incredibly original new music. Just when you thought there were no great new bands one like this appears. I hope this is the first album of many.

Genius!
This album is absolutley brilliant! I love the lyrics! They are deep and perceptive and fun. The sound is infectious and life loving! Buy this album it will brighten up your day whenever you listen to it! And if you want to listen closer it will provoke you to imagine more fully the parts of stories it tells!!

The album for the summer!
Just imagine it, one of those rare sunny Sundays, sitting in the garden and you need a bit of music to go with it - this is the album you want! Never mind the neighbours (they're probably playing it too!) bang it up loud and enjoy the African influence. If you're anything like me the hype puts you OFF an album, so just ignore the hype and enjoy the songs, majority of them are superb!

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