Vampire Weekend have just unleashed their first taste of music in six years, and it’s not what you’d expect.
For a few years now, fans of Vampire Weekend have been eagerly awaiting the band’s fourth album. The follow-up to 2013’s Modern Vampires Of The City, the band have been teasing us with new information for quite some time.
Last week, we finally received some new information about the new album. Coming at some point in the next few months, the record is currently known by its initials of FOTB, with fans rabidly guessing what its real title could be.
Consisting of 18 songs and running for just under an hour, frontman Ezra Koenig told fans that the band will be releasing two songs per month in the lead-up to the album’s release. Now, the band have unleashed a two-hour teaser of music ahead of this week’s single release.
As Pitchfork reports, Vampire Weekend took to YouTube earlier today to share a lengthy instrumental track, titled ‘120 Minutes Of Harmony Hall Guitars’.
Doing exactly what it says on the tin, the track is two hours of a chilled guitar riff to the band’s upcoming track, ‘Harmony Hall’. Of course, with the riff itself not lasting for too long, this video gets pretty repetitive pretty quickly, though its relaxing nature serves as some pretty nice background music.
Incidentally, if you’re an aspiring guitarist, the band also shared some guitar tablature for how to play this new track.
Of course, this isn’t the only piece of music we’ll be getting this week, with the full-length version of ‘Harmony Hall’ dropping on Thursday, alongside another new single titled ‘2021’. We’re also set to receive two new tracks in both February and March, with the album presumably dropping somewhere around April.
At this stage, it’s all a bit of a waiting game, so check out the band’s instrumental video below, put your feet up, and bliss out to these chill sounds.
Check out Vampire Weekend’s ‘120 Minutes Of Harmony Hall Guitars’:
