It takes a certain amount of chutzpah and a lot of tact to pull off what bass player-singer-songwriter-producer Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner has over the past decade or so — to be a musician whose work traverses jazz, funk, hip-hop and pop, as well as the kind of artist who can parse life, loss and love, and sing sweetly in his tender falsetto, “I may be covered in cat hair, but I still smell good.” Basically, it means being the rare talent who can build a career on the swampy but fertile...
- 4/7/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Vampire Weekend unveiled two new songs, “This Life” and “Unbearably White,” the final pair of tracks they’ll share before the release of their new album, Father of the Bride, May 3rd via Columbia Records.
“This Life” is a sunny and spirited tune that finds frontman Ezra Koenig trading guitar licks with Jake Longstreth – brother of Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth and co-host with Koenig on his Beats 1 radio show “Time Crisis” — and sharing vocal duties with Danielle Haim. The song opens with a characteristically cheeky Vampire Weekend lyric, with Koenig singing,...
“This Life” is a sunny and spirited tune that finds frontman Ezra Koenig trading guitar licks with Jake Longstreth – brother of Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth and co-host with Koenig on his Beats 1 radio show “Time Crisis” — and sharing vocal duties with Danielle Haim. The song opens with a characteristically cheeky Vampire Weekend lyric, with Koenig singing,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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