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“Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend
From the album Father of the Bride (2019)
“Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend appears on 32 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2019 and 2026. It was first released in 2019 on the album Father of the Bride. Its best result is #1 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2019, and it was voted number one on three countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #5 alternative song of 2019 and #281 of the '10s.
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"Harmony Hall" was the first taste of Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend's fourth album, arriving on Columbia in January 2019 as a double A-side with "2021". Ezra Koenig wrote it, sings it and produced it with Ariel Rechtshaid, Rostam added extra production, and Manny Marroquin mixed it.
On the surface it's all sunshine: a rolling country-soul shuffle that had listeners reaching for Paul Simon and the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey", driven by a piano groove and breakbeats lifted from the baggy and Madchester dancefloors, with a baroque swirl of piano and strings at the bridge. Underneath the bounce, though, Koenig is singing about dread, and that gap between the grin and the worry is the whole trick. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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