News Vampire Weekend to release new music next week

The next two tasters of ‘Father of the Bride’ will come on 6th March.

1st March 2019

Vampire Weekend are to release new music next week.

The band already gave us ‘Harmony Hall’ and ‘2021’ back in January, and announce the new tracks with an apology to fans - they were aiming to get two tracks out each month prior to album ‘Father of the Bride’’s release.

The songs will instead come out on 6th March.

The songs are ‘Sunflower’ and ‘Big Blue’ - and the former is the “sibling song” to ‘Flower Moon’, a collaboration with Steve Lacy debuted live last summer.

‘Big Blue’ was also teased by the band, having been “played off the speakers at [the band’s] Lollapalooza aftershow”.

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SUNFLOWER / BIG BLUE OUT NEXT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6. wanted to get it out in February but we were convinced by intelligent people to wait a week to get some ducks in a row. Lots more coming/happening in Phase 2. It’s about to get pretty busy. A couple fun facts: Sunflower is the sibling song of Flower Moon. Big Blue was played off the speakers at our Lollapalooza aftershow in Chicago last summer. (Who was there??) SEE U NEXT WEEK

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