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Apr 2024
1:54pm, 5 Apr 2024
21,291 posts
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Chrisull
New Vampire weekend out today - sounding excellent so far.
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Apr 2024
6:15pm, 5 Apr 2024
21,293 posts
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Chrisull
Oh and new Jane Weaver! Also sounding good.
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Apr 2024
6:21pm, 5 Apr 2024
53,960 posts
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McGoohan
I'm halfway through the Vampire Weekend one. They're a bit of an odd band I think. In the past, I've liked half an album but been bemused by the other tracks. I think I find them - sorry, it's an inverse chip on shoulder thing - a bit 'preppy'. There's even a song on the new album called Prep-School Gangsters or something. I sort of see them as a USA version of Mumford and Sons - which is a bit hypocritical of me, considering I like The Vaccines.
Anyway, I do actually quite like the new album so far.
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Apr 2024
6:48pm, 5 Apr 2024
53,962 posts
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McGoohan
Actually I'm a double hypocrite considering I love The Strokes so much, the preppiest band ever. They just hide it better. (They are all called Forbes Forbingsworth IV etc)
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Apr 2024
7:07pm, 5 Apr 2024
21,295 posts
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Chrisull
With Vampire Weekend, the whole preppy thing is part of the aesthetic pretty much, right down to the lyrics see in particular "Oxford Comma" ?
So if you find preppy irking, they're gonna be hard work yeah lol.
Phoenix also count as being preppy I see as well now! (who I also like) But to be honest if it's a choice between preppy versus say the faux machismo of say Kings of Leon, then I'd happily salute preppy every time.
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Apr 2024
7:11pm, 5 Apr 2024
21,296 posts
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Chrisull
And yeah I like the Strokes too, although I used to hate them. They kind of wore me down after the Casablancas song on Daft Punk - Random Access Memories, Instant Crush. Last lp by them was their best since the first. I kinda ignored the rest in between, although "One way trigger" bored its way into my brain.
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Apr 2024
9:04pm, 8 Apr 2024
100 posts
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Velo_Dirtbag
For the Jane Weaver fans she is currently live in session on BBC6 Music.
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Apr 2024
6:59am, 9 Apr 2024
14,561 posts
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Little Nemo
Thanks! I've bookmarked it in BBC Sounds to listen to later 
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Apr 2024
12:41pm, 11 Apr 2024
12,620 posts
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Joopsy
English Teacher out tomorrow, I see they have already sold out their entire our in May.
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Apr 2024
5:27pm, 11 Apr 2024
9,630 posts
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MaTT (previously The Terminator)
Went to see the Libertines in Kingston Pryzm last night. I probably have more emotional attachment to them than any other band and to see them playing really well and releasing a new album I really like makes me really happy.
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