“Hannah Hunt” by Vampire Weekend

"Hannah Hunt" sits on Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend's third album, which XL Recordings put out in 2013. Ezra Koenig wrote the words and shared the music with Rostam, and Rostam produced and mixed it with Ariel Rechtshaid, the first outside producer the band had ever let into the room.

That tells you something about the record around it. The band started writing it at soundchecks on the Contra tour, drifted off into solo projects, then regrouped in 2011 and worked with no deadline, stepping away from the African-flavoured indie pop of their first two albums toward something stranger, full of pitch-shifting and other studio tricks, and preoccupied with growing older, mortality and faith.

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