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The Thrilling Uncoolness of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Harmony Hall’

Among the band’s first singles in six years is a tribute to jam bands and ravers that sounds a warning against groupthink.
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The for “Harmony Hall,” one of Vampire Weekend’s first two new songs in six years, could have been a five-minute . Pill bugs wiggle, moths flap and twitch, a worm inches along, and a big hairy spider scurries across the screen in jump-scare style. But the critters are shot in such crisp HD, presented against a white background, that their anatomies appear as things of beauty, like in . It’s all edited in such a way, speeding and slowing with the

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