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#16 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008) I am always fascinated by the way in which music is disseminated by critics and by how powerful an influence their words can have over a certain type of music consumer. Lately, in turn, I've wondered just what intelligent bands like Vampire Weekend make of the eddying eruptions of pseudo-profound critical shitspeak which cling to their reputations like trails of sour gas? I mean it must be tough to record an [...]

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