Vampire Weekend Recreates Your Favorite Album
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This is a long overdue review of one of the best albums (and Djake's favorite album) of the year so far. Vampire Weekend's tertiary album, Modern Vampires of the City, may well be this group's finest. I can only describe it as being nostalgic; upon first listen it already sounds like your favorite album. What I mean by that is, although it is not my favorite album of the year (that coveted title goes to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories), it merely sounds like it. It's as if someone took one Read more [...]
I recently watched Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, for the less pretentious of us), and was immediately captivated by the music in the film. Maurice Jarre, the famed composer of the Lawrence of Arabia score, perfectly accentuates the skin-crawliness of this film. There are two main treatments of music in Les yeux: one, a forlorn lullaby, the other, a demented carnival waltz.
The aforementioned lullaby can be heard in the track "Thème Romantique". Jarre flawlessly