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    DUELING CRITICS

    Oct 26, 2019 4 minutes

    Vampire Weekend

    Father of the Bride (COLUMBIA/SPRING SNOW)

    Just over 10 years on from their debut, Vampire Weekend already feel like a relic from the Obama era. They emerged during a naively congratulatory moment in American history—when “post-racial America” seemed a realistic, if not, imminent reality—in which the president could be black and privileged Ivy League kids could experiment with highlife and dancehall in a way that felt well-meaning and intellectually honest. But 2019 is not 2008 and the time for complacency is long gone. Now, a band whose breeziness was once an antidote to the achingly serious indie rock of the early 2000s are tasked with finding their

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