Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend

Only God Was Above Us, Vampire Weekend's fifth album, arrived on Columbia on April 5, 2024, and it's the first they made as a trio: Ezra Koenig on vocals and guitar, Chris Baio on bass and Chris Tomson on drums, with Rostam Batmanglij, who left the lineup in 2016, still among the producers. Longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid worked with them for the third time, with Koenig and Tomson also at the desk.

The prep-school sparkle of the early records gives way to something grittier and more restless, songs that crackle and sprawl before snapping back to Koenig's sweet, clever melodies. "Capricorn" and "Classical" were the ones that stuck, and critics, as they had with everything the band made before it, came away raving.

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