Review: Vampire Weekend
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- Review: Vampire Weekend
- 1. MUSIC FOR MYANMAR
- The Daily Evergreen
- Action on small scale in ‘Son of Rambow’
Review: Vampire Weekend
Telegraph.co.uk – May 15, 2008
It’s a mix of uptight white college-geek indie and jaunty Afropop. Over a sunnily lilting guitar refrain and hip-swaying beat a boyish voice warbles about sophomores and sweaters… Over a sunnily lilting guitar refrain and hip-swaying beat a boyish voice warbles about sophomores and sweaters. When Sting started making a pop-rock version of world music he was jeered at. Now Vampire Weekend are doing it they’re the hottest band on the blogosphere. Well they do have much cooler hair. Live Vampire Weekend seem more identifiably indie. This is their last gig of a short British tour (although there’s a rescheduled Manchester gig to come in June) and they make a lot of their songs fizzier and rockier – and more exciting – than on record.
1. MUSIC FOR MYANMAR
Washington Post – May 15, 2008
CENTURY– Wednesday at 9 p. Not for the faint of heart this band is underground metal and boasts a hardcore sound. With Time of Cholera and Pack of Wolves. The Red and the Black 1212 H St… OSS 117: CAIRO NEST OF SPIES– Opens Friday. In this James Bond-style spy spoof from the 1960s a French secret service agent and ladies’ man known as OSS 117 must investigate the death of a friend control the Suez Canal and establish peace in the Middle East. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius. Landmark’s E Street Cinema 555 11th St.
The Daily Evergreen
Daily Evergreen – The Daily Evergreen – May 15, 2008
I blasted the song “Death Rides a Horse” and it blew me away. Something happened and I didn’t know if I should have been frightened or not. Not the too-much-alcohol-no-self-esteem-late-night-Valhalla dance but my head bobbed and my leg wiggled a bit… The album shows the band can play great music butthe music feels like I have heard it before. Russian Circles is a three-piece instrumental band from Chicago that somehow through the release of two six-song albums have blown up. After “Enter” they were picked up by Seattle’s Suicide Squeeze records (home of Minus the Bear and Hella). Their Suicide Squeeze debut is a great album that I have been able to listen to on repeat but seems to be lacking something special. Some of it sounds too much like Pelican parts of “Station” and “Youngblood” with dependence on heavy palm muting instead of some of the shredding found on “Enter. ” They also delve into moody yet relaxing post-rock with songs that would fit right in on This Will Destroy You’s next release.
Action on small scale in ‘Son of Rambow’
Akron Beacon Journal – May 15, 2008
A rowboat hangs suspended from the ceiling and there’s equipment for pumping out videotape copies of the movies that Lee pirates at the local cinema while puffing somewhat uncertainly on a filter-tip (yes you could smoke in the movies in England in those days). Electrified by his introduction to Rambo Will joins Lee in a home video remake of the film. This involves Will enacting literally death-defying stunts: He’s catapulted high into the air for example and swings on a rope to drop into a lake neglecting to tell Lee he can’t swim. The special effects are cobbled together from household items purloined booty and Will’s sketches and flip-book animation. All is not well at home where Will lives with his mom (Jessica Stevenson) a sister and his drooling grandma (Anna Wing). There’s an unwelcome visitor in the house most of the time Brother Joshua (the perfectly named Neil Dudgeon) who covets the role of Will’s absent father and enjoys being stern and forbidding to the lad. The intimacy of his relationship with the mother seems limited to nods when he says goodbye at the end of the evening… Taller and older he takes charge of their indie production and their lives. Meanwhile their stunt work escalates: They steal a life-sized dog from the Guide Dogs for the Blind people hook it to a parasail and inadvertently set off fire alarms at their school. And a runaway Jeep causes a load of scrap metal to fall on Will and Lee with surprisingly limited results. All of this takes place in a pastoral countryside and a benign city where the boys move more or less invisibly. They’re not simply growing up but expanding: their horizons their imaginations their genius for troublemaking. Since it is made clear at the start that little fatal or tragic is likely to happen the movie becomes like a fable — maybe too fabulous for its own good. The plot unspools with nothing really urgent at stake the boys live in innocence and invulnerability and the settings and action have a way of softening the characters.
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