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THE HIPSTER NEW ACT:

Despite having a band name that sounds like a themed movie weekend on the sci-fi channel and despite looking like completely unassuming lads dressed in their best Gap outfits, Vampire Weekend are actually a musical casserole of bizarre dance moves, the best elements of pop mixed in with tribal beats and a hushed reverence for new wave music. Currently the toast of trendy hipsters in NYC, their debut EP is full of off kilter tracks performed with genuine exuberance and joy. Songs like Oxford Comma and Mansard Roof take the smart elements of indie-pop, mix in some world beats and some rather bizarre lyrics, all with a heady delirious effect. Listening to them is like taking some giddy glee inducing drug. But legal. Oh dear god, I can only imagine what their live set is like…

LINK: Myspace page

LINK: Purchase the debut ep