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Track Review: Vampire Weekend - "Horchata"

Oct 13, 2009, 11:04am Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Track Review: Vampire Weekend - "Horchata" Here's what you've all been waiting for since you listened to "Oxford Comma" 187 times in a row: a new Vampire Weekend song/album (!) But first: a lesson from my best friend, Wikipedia: Horchata is "the name for several kinds of traditional (Caribbean) beverages, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley or tigernuts." Mmmm, tigernuts. But I digress. It so happens that Ezra Koenig has been drinking this stuff and wrote a song about it, and it ain't all bad. The African/World influence is more pronounced than on their self-titled debut, and the instrumentation [...]
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