āHeās in that in-between moment for an artist, when the work is done but he still doesnāt know what story to tell about it. The album has a name, but he doesnāt want to disclose that name just yet. He plays me a couple of tracks, nervously pacing, stepping outside the room, or picking the guitar back up to play along, like heās still figuring out how the songs go. Theyāre big and bright and immediateāyou can hear the rooms they were recorded in, picture exactly who theyāre about. He asks me not to be more specific than that, so there you are: big and bright and immediate. The young, charming characters of old Vampire Weekend songsāwitty, ironically detached, with expansive vocabularies and broken heartsāare here, but older and wiser and sadder. Like Koenig, theyāve lived a bit more life. āThe people in āOxford Commaā and āWhite Skyā and 'Step'āI had this feeling this is where those people are now,ā he says. āLike, this is where all this shit ended up.āā
āThe bandās new record will come out on Columbia later this yearāpretty much every label, indie and major alike, made them an offer, Koenig says. And he, along with the rest of the bandāremaining original members Chris Tomson and Chris Baioāwill have to learn what it means to be in Vampire Weekend in 2019. Koenig recently had the liberating realization that it might actually be okay if the band arenāt quite as popular as they used to be: "On the last record, I had this slight feeling that we got a little bit too big.ā Now, āsometimes people ask me, Are you nervous that youāve been gone so long? And I might have been nervous three years ago, like, Am I gonna get all this shit together? Now Iām at this place where Iām kinda like, if the record wasnāt done and I wasnāt excited to go on tour, I might even wait longer. Not only did I stop stressing about the fact that it had taken so long, I started to be like, This makes sense. Why do people release music more than every five years?ā He smiles and reaches over to the computer in the studio with the new record on it. He gave the final version to the label just the other day, he says.āYou want to listen to a couple more?"ā
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