现代城市里的小激动——VW新砖引进版到手！~随帖附送权威媒体的原文评论精选~
此刻我的小脑袋正处于异常兴奋的状态，心脏急促跳动，血液沸腾；
不知是否因为喝了一杯咖啡的缘故，还是因为手上翻着VW的新砖歌词并放尽音量用CD唱机在听的缘故；
没想到上个周末逛书店竟然被我遇上了VW新砖的中国版，
没想到这张引进版的包装精良得会让人如此感动，
没想到在BING上给我搜到了新砖在Metascore上的评分及评论，发现此专为乐队出道最高！
激动的我很想为VW做一些事情，于是乎，不受控制地把Metascore上的权威媒体的原文评分及评论一一复制粘贴上来……
84（Metascore）
Universal acclaim
based on 51 Critics
8.7（User Score）
Universal acclaim
based on 276 Ratings
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Expert Witness (MSN Music) May 21, 2013
100
Each verse/chorus/bridge/intro melody, each lyric straight or knotty, each sound effect playful or perverse (or both)‑-each is pleasurable in itself and aptly situated in the sturdy songs and tracks, so that the whole signifies without a hint of concept.
>>>The A.V. Club May 14, 2013
100
The band itself probably doesn’t know quite what that is yet, but as a capstone to what it’s done so far, Modern Vampires Of The City feels pretty perfect.
>>>Pretty Much Amazing May 10, 2013
100
Nothing feels out-of-place or out-of-sync, everything clicks together in flourishes of simple brilliance.
>>>Magnet May 10, 2013
95
The group's warmest, most charitable album to date.
>>>Absolute Punk (Staff reviews) May 10, 2013
95
This is a truly magnificent record, and I think it’s going to end up being the album for which we remember Vampire Weekend.
>>>Pitchfork May 13, 2013
93
Along with the more lived-in sonics, Modern Vampires has the band taking a leap forward into emotional directness. Koenig and Batmanglij truly seem of one mind here, as the vocals and music interact with each other in an effortless flow.
>>>Entertainment Weekly May 7, 2013
91
When everything here lines up the right way--and it more often than not, it does--Modern Vampires is the perfect album for the coming Atlantic summer. Think of it like saltwater taffy: bright and sweet, with plenty to chew on.
>>>CMJ May 16, 2013
90
Vampires Of The Modern City stands to become the group’s Paul’s Boutique, raising the bar from being a fun but safe band to breaking ground ahead of their peers.
>>>No Ripcord May 15, 2013
90
Modern Vampires of the City is nothing short of a pop music achievement, a standout album in a year full of standout albums.
>>>Under The Radar May 14, 2013
90
Modern Vampires of the City is their best album to date, one that should not only maintain their level of popularity but elevate it.
>>>Consequence of Sound May 13, 2013
90
Time, life, death, religion, New York City, and New York money are big topics to tackle in a 45 minute pop album, and Modern Vampires doesn’t even attempt answers to the questions it raises. Instead, it’s content to expound upon the Vampire Weekend aesthetic in inventive, imaginative, and undeniably successful ways.
>>>Slant Magazine May 13, 2013
90
The songs may be dense and literary, but they're also immediately potent on a purely visceral level, striking a perfect balance that makes for what's perhaps the best album in a year already thick with great material.
>>>Drowned In Sound May 9, 2013
90
The new record by Vampire Weekend is the best alternative pop album you will hear this year. Unselfconscious, technically brilliant in a way that crucially you will never actually notice, shimmering with beautiful, strange melodies and just a small smidge of actual bonkers.
>>>Rolling Stone May 7, 2013
90
Vampire Weekend have gotten better at just about everything they do.
>>>Clash Music May 6, 2013
90
Overall, Modern Vampires Of The City conveys one hell of a sense of permanence from a band that once seemed ephemeral and frivolous.
>>>Uncut May 2, 2013
90
A more enjoyable pairing of words and music this year it's hard to imagine. [Jun 2013, p.63]
>>>DIY Magazine May 2, 2013
90
Full of heart and full of ideas, it’s big, clever and brilliantly odd.
>>>Los Angeles Times May 14, 2013
88
A brave, surprising third effort that's both challenging and confident, catchy but progressive, expertly imagined and executed.
>>>Billboard.com May 8, 2013
88
Vampire Weekend's most cohesive and musically accomplished album to date.
>>>Paste Magazine May 7, 2013
87
Modern Vampires is Rostam Batmanglij’s album. Like a character actor stealing the movie from the lead, he pretty much owns these songs, filling them with eccentric flourishes of sound that are both jarring and perfect.
>>>Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) May 21, 2013
85
Modern Vampires of the City finds the band in both familiar and unfamiliar territory, and it’s pure pleasure hearing them navigate these waters.
>>>Punknews.org (Staff) Jun 7, 2013
80
Overall, Modern Vampires of The City sounds fantastic, but not overproduced.
>>>cokemachineglow May 30, 2013
80
Modern Vampires of the City’s songs rarely feel overstuffed or overwritten, with simple kick-snare drumming, plaintive piano chords, and astoundingly well-recorded vocals at their centers.
>>>Mojo May 20, 2013
80
Here and elsewhere, Vampire Weekend's growing self-assurance serves the needs of the song without playing to their perceived strengths.
>>>Fact Magazine (UK) May 17, 2013
80
This album is as life-affirming a piece of music as anything else you’ll hear this year: there’s nothing more uplifting than a good band getting better.
>>>The Quietus May 17, 2013
80
Modern Vampires quite often touches brilliance, and does so without audibly straining for 'maturity' or pushing hard to be some po-faced Great American Album.
>>>NOW Magazine May 16, 2013
80
The achievement here is that each song feels like its own distinct world.
>>>All Music Guide May 15, 2013
80
Ultimately, Modern Vampires of the City is more thoughtful than it is dark, balancing its more serious moments with a lighter touch and more confidence than they've shown before.
>>>PopMatters May 14, 2013
80
For those who have been gripped or at least mildly interested by the band’s progression over its first two LPs will find Modern Vampires of the City to be an expansive, illustrious work that--while clearly a 21st century recording--is a reminder of the gift musicians have to leave the door in one decade and come back in another.
>>>Q Magazine May 13, 2013
80
Those who think that somewhere, a liberal arts college is missing its creative writing teachers, might not be surprised this is a clever record. It's also, however, one that glows with tangible human warmth, heartbeat never failing to keep pace with its brainwaves.
>>>Boston Globe May 13, 2013
80
Now there’s an expansiveness in the music, borne out of a confidence that allows the songs to unfurl rather than rebound like pinballs.
>>>Spin May 13, 2013
80
Like art, Vampires is dense; like pop, it seems to float in effortlessly from some place you're sure you've been, but by some trick of déjà vu eludes your conscious brain.
The Independent on Sunday (UK)May 13, 2013
80
It happens to be their most cohesive and convincing effort yet.
>>>The Observer (UK) May 13, 2013
80
Their erudition, musical and lyrical, remains a pleasure, but what convinces on Modern Vampires are their beating hearts.
>>>musicOMH.com May 13, 2013
80
Amid all this existential and transcendental pondering, there’s the sense that Vampire Weekend have re-imagined themselves as the sort of band who could be doing this well into their 30s.
>>>Exclaim May 10, 2013
80
While cathartic moments of release abound, for the most part, Rostam Batmanglij and co-producer Ariel Reichstadt opt for understated beauty.
>>>American Songwriter May 8, 2013
80
It’s time to start thinking of Vampire Weekend not as upstarts but as one of the world’s best bands, because they’ve delivered a trio of great albums in an era when diminished expectations leave most listeners grateful for one.
>>>The Guardian May 9, 2013
80
Vampire Weekend suddenly sound like a band in it for the long haul.
——以上内容转自Metascore
http://www.metacritic.com/music/modern-vampires-of-the-city/vampire-weekend/critic-reviews
最后，VW新砖的第三轮播放开始……
不知是否因为喝了一杯咖啡的缘故，还是因为手上翻着VW的新砖歌词并放尽音量用CD唱机在听的缘故；
没想到上个周末逛书店竟然被我遇上了VW新砖的中国版，
没想到这张引进版的包装精良得会让人如此感动，
没想到在BING上给我搜到了新砖在Metascore上的评分及评论，发现此专为乐队出道最高！
激动的我很想为VW做一些事情，于是乎，不受控制地把Metascore上的权威媒体的原文评分及评论一一复制粘贴上来……
84（Metascore）
Universal acclaim
based on 51 Critics
8.7（User Score）
Universal acclaim
based on 276 Ratings
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Expert Witness (MSN Music) May 21, 2013
100
Each verse/chorus/bridge/intro melody, each lyric straight or knotty, each sound effect playful or perverse (or both)‑-each is pleasurable in itself and aptly situated in the sturdy songs and tracks, so that the whole signifies without a hint of concept.
>>>The A.V. Club May 14, 2013
100
The band itself probably doesn’t know quite what that is yet, but as a capstone to what it’s done so far, Modern Vampires Of The City feels pretty perfect.
>>>Pretty Much Amazing May 10, 2013
100
Nothing feels out-of-place or out-of-sync, everything clicks together in flourishes of simple brilliance.
>>>Magnet May 10, 2013
95
The group's warmest, most charitable album to date.
>>>Absolute Punk (Staff reviews) May 10, 2013
95
This is a truly magnificent record, and I think it’s going to end up being the album for which we remember Vampire Weekend.
>>>Pitchfork May 13, 2013
93
Along with the more lived-in sonics, Modern Vampires has the band taking a leap forward into emotional directness. Koenig and Batmanglij truly seem of one mind here, as the vocals and music interact with each other in an effortless flow.
>>>Entertainment Weekly May 7, 2013
91
When everything here lines up the right way--and it more often than not, it does--Modern Vampires is the perfect album for the coming Atlantic summer. Think of it like saltwater taffy: bright and sweet, with plenty to chew on.
>>>CMJ May 16, 2013
90
Vampires Of The Modern City stands to become the group’s Paul’s Boutique, raising the bar from being a fun but safe band to breaking ground ahead of their peers.
>>>No Ripcord May 15, 2013
90
Modern Vampires of the City is nothing short of a pop music achievement, a standout album in a year full of standout albums.
>>>Under The Radar May 14, 2013
90
Modern Vampires of the City is their best album to date, one that should not only maintain their level of popularity but elevate it.
>>>Consequence of Sound May 13, 2013
90
Time, life, death, religion, New York City, and New York money are big topics to tackle in a 45 minute pop album, and Modern Vampires doesn’t even attempt answers to the questions it raises. Instead, it’s content to expound upon the Vampire Weekend aesthetic in inventive, imaginative, and undeniably successful ways.
>>>Slant Magazine May 13, 2013
90
The songs may be dense and literary, but they're also immediately potent on a purely visceral level, striking a perfect balance that makes for what's perhaps the best album in a year already thick with great material.
>>>Drowned In Sound May 9, 2013
90
The new record by Vampire Weekend is the best alternative pop album you will hear this year. Unselfconscious, technically brilliant in a way that crucially you will never actually notice, shimmering with beautiful, strange melodies and just a small smidge of actual bonkers.
>>>Rolling Stone May 7, 2013
90
Vampire Weekend have gotten better at just about everything they do.
>>>Clash Music May 6, 2013
90
Overall, Modern Vampires Of The City conveys one hell of a sense of permanence from a band that once seemed ephemeral and frivolous.
>>>Uncut May 2, 2013
90
A more enjoyable pairing of words and music this year it's hard to imagine. [Jun 2013, p.63]
>>>DIY Magazine May 2, 2013
90
Full of heart and full of ideas, it’s big, clever and brilliantly odd.
>>>Los Angeles Times May 14, 2013
88
A brave, surprising third effort that's both challenging and confident, catchy but progressive, expertly imagined and executed.
>>>Billboard.com May 8, 2013
88
Vampire Weekend's most cohesive and musically accomplished album to date.
>>>Paste Magazine May 7, 2013
87
Modern Vampires is Rostam Batmanglij’s album. Like a character actor stealing the movie from the lead, he pretty much owns these songs, filling them with eccentric flourishes of sound that are both jarring and perfect.
>>>Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) May 21, 2013
85
Modern Vampires of the City finds the band in both familiar and unfamiliar territory, and it’s pure pleasure hearing them navigate these waters.
>>>Punknews.org (Staff) Jun 7, 2013
80
Overall, Modern Vampires of The City sounds fantastic, but not overproduced.
>>>cokemachineglow May 30, 2013
80
Modern Vampires of the City’s songs rarely feel overstuffed or overwritten, with simple kick-snare drumming, plaintive piano chords, and astoundingly well-recorded vocals at their centers.
>>>Mojo May 20, 2013
80
Here and elsewhere, Vampire Weekend's growing self-assurance serves the needs of the song without playing to their perceived strengths.
>>>Fact Magazine (UK) May 17, 2013
80
This album is as life-affirming a piece of music as anything else you’ll hear this year: there’s nothing more uplifting than a good band getting better.
>>>The Quietus May 17, 2013
80
Modern Vampires quite often touches brilliance, and does so without audibly straining for 'maturity' or pushing hard to be some po-faced Great American Album.
>>>NOW Magazine May 16, 2013
80
The achievement here is that each song feels like its own distinct world.
>>>All Music Guide May 15, 2013
80
Ultimately, Modern Vampires of the City is more thoughtful than it is dark, balancing its more serious moments with a lighter touch and more confidence than they've shown before.
>>>PopMatters May 14, 2013
80
For those who have been gripped or at least mildly interested by the band’s progression over its first two LPs will find Modern Vampires of the City to be an expansive, illustrious work that--while clearly a 21st century recording--is a reminder of the gift musicians have to leave the door in one decade and come back in another.
>>>Q Magazine May 13, 2013
80
Those who think that somewhere, a liberal arts college is missing its creative writing teachers, might not be surprised this is a clever record. It's also, however, one that glows with tangible human warmth, heartbeat never failing to keep pace with its brainwaves.
>>>Boston Globe May 13, 2013
80
Now there’s an expansiveness in the music, borne out of a confidence that allows the songs to unfurl rather than rebound like pinballs.
>>>Spin May 13, 2013
80
Like art, Vampires is dense; like pop, it seems to float in effortlessly from some place you're sure you've been, but by some trick of déjà vu eludes your conscious brain.
The Independent on Sunday (UK)May 13, 2013
80
It happens to be their most cohesive and convincing effort yet.
>>>The Observer (UK) May 13, 2013
80
Their erudition, musical and lyrical, remains a pleasure, but what convinces on Modern Vampires are their beating hearts.
>>>musicOMH.com May 13, 2013
80
Amid all this existential and transcendental pondering, there’s the sense that Vampire Weekend have re-imagined themselves as the sort of band who could be doing this well into their 30s.
>>>Exclaim May 10, 2013
80
While cathartic moments of release abound, for the most part, Rostam Batmanglij and co-producer Ariel Reichstadt opt for understated beauty.
>>>American Songwriter May 8, 2013
80
It’s time to start thinking of Vampire Weekend not as upstarts but as one of the world’s best bands, because they’ve delivered a trio of great albums in an era when diminished expectations leave most listeners grateful for one.
>>>The Guardian May 9, 2013
80
Vampire Weekend suddenly sound like a band in it for the long haul.
——以上内容转自Metascore
http://www.metacritic.com/music/modern-vampires-of-the-city/vampire-weekend/critic-reviews
最后，VW新砖的第三轮播放开始……
- 表演者: Vampire Weekend
- 发行时间: 2013-05-07
- 流派: 摇滚
- 出版者: XL Recrodings
- 专辑类型: 专辑