Woooohoooo Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig offers album update, new music coming next week

He’s also revealed the album’s initials will be ‘FOTB’, and it’ll be eighteen songs in length.

18th January 2019

If there’s one album we’ve probably all been waiting for (for what feels like 367464 years by now) it’s the new one from Vampire Weekend: and luckily, the wait for new music may be over sooner, rather than later.

The band’s Ezra Koenig has offered up a lengthy update on their new album - the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ - revealing that it might actually be a double album - he still manages to vague about that - and that new music should be landing as soon as next week.

The facts that we do now know: the initials of the album’s title are ‘FOTB’, it’ll be 18 songs long and it’s “about 59 minutes long”. So, really, it sounds like we’re in for a treat.

He’s also said that, following on from the first track being released next week, we should expect to hear two songs every month until the album’s release, before reminding us “plans can change that’s the plan”.

Read Ezra’s full statement below, via his Instagram page.

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To the fans:⁣ I know that 5-6 years is considered a long time between records. Personally, I think it’s a dignified pace befitting a band that’s already placed three albums in stores but everyone has their own sense of time. (I swear the time between 3 & 4 felt shorter to me than 2 & 3. I may be in the minority on this one.) ⁣ ⁣ This album didn’t really take any longer to write/record than MVOTC. We just took more time on the front end to chill. I’ll admit I may have stretched out the mixing/mastering process (aka THE END) a little bit cuz spending half the day with my family & half the day at Ariel’s is my ideal life-rhythm & it’s painful to say goodbye to that rhythm.⁣ ⁣ Many of you have been hungry for information and we’ve given you very little. I don’t like talking abt a project while in the middle of making it. I usually regret everything I say cuz it turns out to be wrong (so disregard anything I may have said in the past 5 years.) I thought abt making a recording diary to tide over the people leaving intense comments but…to me, the album IS the recording diary…man.⁣ ⁣ It’s called “FOTB” (well those are the initials - that’s a VW tradition) and it’s 18 songs. Picked the name a few years ago. At some point early on, the album drifted from the Mitsubishi Macchiato aesthetic. It was a helpful guiding principle tho. Working titles are important too.⁣ ⁣ It’s a lot of songs but they all belong there. (If you disagree, you can always say it was 6 songs too long & make a lil 12-song playlist version of it.) At first, I wanted to make two 23-song albums on some human chromosome shit but then 23&me started doing Spotify playlists and I don’t know…felt we’d been scooped.⁣ ⁣ Is it a double album? The vinyl will be double so…yes? It’s about 59 minutes long. We can talk more abt that later – if u care. To me, it’s just FOTB.⁣ ⁣ Anyway, we’re gonna start releasing music next week. After all that waiting, you should have the general schedule:⁣ ⁣ -There will be three 2-song drops every month until the record is out. 1. hh/2021 2. s/bb 3. tl/uw. (plans can change that’s the plan)⁣ ⁣ Thank you for ur patience,⁣ Ezra

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