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''Modern Vampires of the City'' is the third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released on May 14, 2013, by XL Recordings. After releasing their 2010 album ''Contra'', the band toured and wrote new material during sound checks. Following a period in which the quartet pursued different musical projects, they regrouped and began work on their third record in 2011. Working with no deadline in mind, the band brought in an outside record producer for the first time, Ariel Rechtshaid. Recorded at a number of studios and locations, ''Modern Vampires of the City'' was an attempt to distance the band from the sound they became heavily associated with following their 2008 debut and ''Contra''. Broadly experimental, the sound featured on the record is the result of a variety of unconventional recording assets, including pitch shifting. The cover art is a 1966 photograph by Neal Boenzi of the smoggiest day in New York City history, on which the air pollution killed at least 169 people. ''Modern Vampires of the City'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200, becoming Vampire Weekend's second consecutive number-one album in the United States. It received widespread acclaim and was named the best record of 2013 by several publications, while finishing second in the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. By December 2014, the album had sold 505,000 copies in the US. ==Background and writing== The success of Vampire Weekend's second album, ''Contra'' (2010), established the group as "one of the past decade's great indie-rock success stories." By the time the band wrapped their world tour for ''Contra'', they realized they had not taken a break in nearly five years.〔 During the break, the band members pursued individual projects: Baio performed DJ sets and scored the Bob Byington film ''Somebody Up There Likes Me'',〔 Batmanglij recorded solo material and produced tracks for Das Racist and spent time traveling India with three friends,〔 and Koenig collaborated with Major Lazer. Koenig had broken up with his girlfriend shortly before the release of ''Contra'' and subsequently moved out of their shared apartment in New York.〔 Feeling "weird and aimless", Koenig attempted to stay in Los Angeles but he returned East after four months.〔〔 By the time the band eventually regrouped in 2011, the quartet had amassed plenty of material and made sure to take their time making a new record. Koenig and Batmanglij met several times a week to write songs, some of which they'd later scrap.〔 The pair took a "writing retreat" to Martha's Vineyard, where they bore down and composed several new tracks.〔 Working with no deadline in mind, the band began work on ''Modern Vampires of the City''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Modern Vampires of the City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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