The word about Zee Avi passed to the Malloys from Ian Montone, entertainment lawyer turned band manager turned management company impresario. Montone got off to a major start through his management of The White Stripes. He followed that up by guiding the success of indie darlings Vampire Weekend. Their debut Vampire Weekend came out in 2008 on XL Recordings.
Vampire Weekend's sound is a testament to how much popular and critical traction a band can get on the back of good taste. They transpose the sonic history of African guitar pop to the ivy league campus where it mixes with the more local chamber pop and indie influences. But what pushes the band's debut to a modern classic is an ideal of creative collaboration that challenges each contribution to be its most engaging best before all of them are neatly nestled together into an efficient, tight and buoyant song. The conceptual result is full of life in execution and in reception: eternally fresh and iconically memorable. The traveling, the melange, the product is a story of music just as familiar to Congo or Mali as to Columbia University and all the college campuses that had Vampire Weekend retelling it from just about every open window.
Here is the discography surrounding Vampire Weekend's debut album:
Vampire Weekend (2007 EP)
Mansard Roof (2007 single)
OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer (2007 compilation song)
Daytrotter Session (2007 live session)
Vampire Weekend
A-Punk (2008 single)
Oxford Comma (2008 single)
The MySpace Transmissions (2008 live session)
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (2008 single)
The Kids Don't Stand a Chance (2008 single)
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" by Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend Live at Amoeba Music
"Ladies of Cambridge" by Vampire Weekend
Pass the Headphones!!
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