REQUEST: Vampire Weekend - (2008) Vampire Weekend

sound: Indie/Pop
length: 12 songs, 35.17 minutes
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1. Mansard Roof
2. Oxford Comma
3. A-Punk
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. M79
6. Campus
7. Bryn
8. One (Blake's Got A New Face)
9. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. The Kids Don't Stand A Chance

If you don't already know about this album then you've been living under a rock for the last year.

sounds like: The Spinto Band, Ra Ra Riot

Kaboom!

Ra Ra Riot - (2008) The Rhumb Line

sound: Indie/Poolhall
length: 10 songs, 36.57 minutes long
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1. Ghost Under Rocks (4:26)
2. Each Year (3:15)
3. St. Peter's Day Festival (3:34)
4. Winter '05 (2:56)
5. Dying Is Fine (3:51)
6. Can You Tell (2:42)
7. Too Too Too Fast (3:46)
8. Oh, La (4:41)
9. Suspended In Gaffa (3:48)
10. Run My Mouth (3:58)

This album is just damn catchy, nice kids from the New York. Sort of rode in on the shirt tails of fellow New Yorkers Vampire Weekend, who they toured with in their beginning stages.Their sound is best described if you imagine Vampire Weekend got We Are Scientists really drunk one saturday night at a party, and nine months later Ra Ra Riot was born. Very low key, fav. songs include Ghosts Under Rocks, and Winter 05. Their drummer John Pike was a great guy, if you wanna check his foundation out go here.

sounds like: We Are Scientists, Grammatics, Spinto Band, The Rifles

Crash!