Veedeo: Vampire Weekend on MTV Unplugged
Though new, rising artists hitting the popularity scene will commonly fall into the infamous “Second Album Suck”, when the band’s sophomore record just, well, sucks, New York college-rockers Vampire Weekend continue to prove this phenomenon wrong. As the Tuesday release of their second album, titled Contra, draws closer, VW have shown in the past couple months that this record is something to be excited about. What with the release of the singles Horchata and Cousins along with many shows scheduled around the world beforehand, the group has shown enough of the record to convince us as an audience that, yes, this album will actually be just as fantastic as their first, if not more so.
The latest of these public revealings has been, oddly, on the MTV show Unplugged, which features chart-topping artists playing acoustic sets surrounded by candles (…yes. Candles). And though you may not expect their newest single, “Cousins”, to translate very well to an acoustic song, the band pulls this feat off very effectively, as you can see in the video up above.
I was really pleasantly surprised by this thing, hope you all enjoy it as well.
Thanks!
