“Classical” by Vampire Weekend

"Classical" comes from Only God Was Above Us, the fifth Vampire Weekend album, released in April 2024 and the band's first as a trio after Rostam Batmanglij's 2016 exit. Ezra Koenig wrote it on his own and produced it with his longtime partner Ariel Rechtshaid, and Dave Fridmann mixed it.

The credits read like a small orchestra crammed into a rehearsal room. Koenig plays electric and 12-string guitars, organ and piano; Chris Tomson and Rechtshaid split the drums; Miles Mosley adds double bass; Henry Solomon blows both tenor and baritone sax; and Isabel Hagen lends a soprano voice. Chris Baio turns up behind the desk as one of the engineers. It's a crowded lineup for a band down to three, and nobody seems to have told them to scale back.

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