27. VAMPIRE WEEKEEND - FATHER OF THE BRIDE (2019)
I did a vlog a few years ago about why Vampire Weekend are the best band of a generation and that opinion still holds forth. Their fourth opus - a double disc extravaganza! - a concept album about the pecularities of marriage - definitely gets a drivetime, Fleetwood-Mac do-over and nothing is conceded, only added to, despite this reckoning.
I went jogging yesterday, December 1st, and it felt great playing this full-bodied record on the first day of advent, as the snow glistened off the Eastern European rooftops. "...off..." is enough in that last sentence, not sure why Americans say "off of..." - luckily Vampire Weekend don't make such clunky songs.
The band have had three albums appear on this albums of the decade list now, and that's surely a reason for them to celebrate among themselves, doesn't matter if it's distancing or a glass of hot wine in a small group; I'm all good.
