Vampire Weekend have announced that they will be releasing a double album this year and the first tracks from it will arrive sooner than you think.
It has been over five years since the New York based alternative rock band released their last studio album Modern Vampires Of The City. Now, frontman Ezra Koenig has shared the initials “FOTB” on Instagram along with a lengthy post about their upcoming project.
He addressed the post to fans and wrote: “This album didn’t really take any longer to write/record than MVOTC [‘Modern Vampires Of The City’]. 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 [Rechtshaidis – the band’s producer] 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.”
Koenig has promised two song drops a month starting from next week. This means that the album will most likely be released at the end of summer, but no release date has yet been confirmed.