October 6th, 2008
New Vampire Weekend song – Ottoman
Here’s a new track from those cheeky New York rascals Vampire Weekend – who picked up a Q Award for best video earlier today.
It’s called Ottoman, and it features on the soundtrack to forthcoming Michael Cera film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. The song has been tucked away in the Vamps’ live repertoire for quite a while – and in fact predates a lot of the material on their eponymous debut album.
You will also be “interested” to find out that it is the original source of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’s brilliant / inexplicable lyric, “Feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too”. Here it is:
And, in case you haven’t seen it already, here is that afroementioned best video of the year – directed by the Hammer & Tongs team, who did the animated milk carton for Blur’s Coffee and TV, and the not-quite-as-good-as-it-should-have-been Hitch-Hikers’ Guide film.
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