What an album! The most talked about band at CMJ, New York’s favorite new band Vampire Weekend will release their brilliant debut album on January 26th. Debut single “Mansard Roof” is a huge favorite at JJJ already appearing in their Top 10 J Play. The next single “A Punk” due for servicing in early 2008 Vampire Weekend formed and cut their musical teeth at NYC’s Columbia’s University, taking their name from a film that frontman Ezra Koenig wrote and trailered.

The band have been setting Gotham alight with a series of celebratory live performances over the summer, sharing bills with the likes of Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Ra Ra Riot as well as selling out headline shows at the legendary Bowery Ballroom and the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

The album is a beguiling mix of this preppy young band’s direct, danceable tunes and afrobeat-tinged, experimental pop – music from New York’s hottest new band that challenges any preconceptions of what a New York band is meant to sound like.

“Vampire Weekend’s untypical music is the most exciting music to come from the planet’s capital city in years” – NME