Desert nomads building pyramids
Elif Batuman’s recent piece in the Saturday Guardian’s Review section was unusual, in that music is rarely if ever covered there in and of itself, except as the subject of a book review. Elif’s in-depth analysis of Vampire Weekend’s leading light, Ezra Koenig, contains within it precisely the same ingredients which render the Vamps intensely [...]
Cape Cod kwassa kwassa
Indie kids can’t win. On the one hand we have Sasha Frere-Jones castigating their unfunky whiteness, and failing to spot the Motown motion that coursed through certain of Arcade Fire’s pre-Funeral recordings and that album itself (for example the second half of ‘Wake up’), not to mention not mentioning the Haitian roots of Reginé Chassagne, Win [...]
