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Vampire Weekend Sinks Teeth Into a Daytime Show — or Is It Nighttime? — Celebrating Eclipse in Austin: Concert Review
Vampire Weekend played a noontime show in Austin to take advantage of the eclipse, staying on the light side with a long, fun, virtuosic show.
These included two newbies right at the top of the show, “Ice Cream Piano” and “Classical,” and then, over the course of nature playing with its faulty light switch, “Connect,” “Gen-X Cops,” “Capricorn” and “Hope,” all good candidates to stay in the set even by the time Vampire Weekend has moved on to albumsix. The sound of Vampire Weekend on record is pretty different from the live experience, now, just as it was with the last album, 2019’s “Father of the Bride,” with Koenig and co-producer Ariel Rechtshaid treating the music almost as a sonically unpredictable duo project in the studio. But “Connect” — introduced by Koenig as a real “keyboard workout,” like the pianist in tow had his work cut out for him — is one of the year’s most exciting tracks in any incarnation, an exercise in melodious hyperspeed that can’t help but put a smile on faces with its inventiveness and, yes, audaciousness of tempo.
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