Vampire Weekend Confirm Forthcoming Release Will Be a Double Album

The first singles from what's currently known only as "FOTB" are coming next week

By Montana Martin  |  January 18, 2019 | 10:44am
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Vampire Weekend Confirm Forthcoming Release Will Be a Double Album

After speculation, answers and redacted versions of those answers, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has announced that the band’s fourth studio release will be a double album.

Thursday, Koenig made a substantial Instagram post explaining Vampire Weekend’s absence, the process for the new album and encouragement for continued patience from fans.

Although it has been six years since the release of Modern Vampires of the City, the promise from Koenig of an 18-track double album clocking in at 59 minutes worth of new material should satiate those eager for more.

Koenig begins the post, “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.”

In Koenig’s post, he said that starting next week, the band plans to curate “three 2-song drops every month until the record is out.” He also offered an abbreviated release plan for those singles: “1. hh/2021 2. s/bb 3. tl/uw. (plans can change that’s the plan).”

Overriding the album’s working title, Mitsubishi Macchiato, and in what Koenig describes as being in true “VW tradition,” the forthcoming album is currently being referred to with the abbreviation “FOTB.”

Read Koenig’s full post below, and while we eagerly wait for those new tracks to drop, listen to a 2007 Daytrotter Session with songs from Vampire Weekend’s debut album further down.

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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