Vampire Weekend Name Third Album, ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’

We knew Vampire Weekend were to return this spring with an all-new album. We knew it’d be released on 6th May. We then knew - and then didn’t - what it was going to be called.

And then there was an advertisement in the New York Times…

Earlier this morning, the band tweeted a link to their tumblr, with letters semi-cryptically giving the acronym MVOTC, after VW, LP III, MMXIII and XL are explained away as Vampire Weekend, album three, 2013 and XL Recordings respectively.

They followed it with one saying ‘NYT classifieds…’ - and as the helpful types at Pitchfork have posted - it shows the message ‘Modern Vampires of the City, May 7th, 2013’.



So the new Vampire Weekend album is called Modern Vampires of the City, and is accompanied by this suitably Gotham-esque artwork.



The tracklisting for the record is confirmed as the following - and yes, ‘Obvious Bicycle’ is included.

1. Obvious Bicycle
2. Unbelievers
3. Step
4. Diane Young
5. Don’t Lie
6. Hannah Hunt
7. Everlasting Arms
8. Finger Back
9. Worship You
10. Ya Hey
11. Hudson
12. Young Lion

The band have also confirmed a string of live dates, including at London’s Troxy on 8th May.

Their full dates are:

MARCH
13-16 SXSW

APRIL
12 Las Vegas, NV The Cosmopolitan
14 Coachella
16 Davis, CA Freeborn Hall at UC Davis
17 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
21 Coachella

MAY
8 London The Troxy
10 Paris Casino de Paris
15 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
16 Toronto, ON Sony Centre
17 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
19 Kansas City, MO Midland Theater
20 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
21 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
23 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium