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    For Vampire Weekend, East Coast prep is out, and L.A. dad vibes are in

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Apr 30, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - It wasn't always relaxing, the six-year break between Vampire Weekend's last album and its new one, but not because Ezra Koenig didn't have time to chill.

    Sure, the frontman kept moderately busy with projects outside the band known for its globe-hopping style and arch, prep-school attitude. There was the animated series he made for Netflix and a radio show on Apple's Beats 1; there was the tune he wrote for the movie "Peter Rabbit" and his performance with Karen O at the Academy Awards.

    But come on, Koenig scoffed on a recent afternoon - it's not like these bursts of activity filled the half-decade since "Modern Vampires of the City" debuted at No.1 in 2013 and won a Grammy for best alternative music album.

    What threatened Koenig's calm as he slowly pieced together his follow-up was occasionally hearing something by another artist and realizing he'd been scooped on a cool

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