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Vampire Weekend's Chris Tomson Releases 'Death Wish'

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Sep 30, 2016

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Vampire Weekend's Chris Tomson Releases 'Death Wish'

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Both a blessing and a curse, another ¼ of Indie music’s favorite Ivy League graduates has embarked on a solo project. Chris Tomson, otherwise known as “CT,” the drummer in Vampire Weekend, recently decided to come out with a fresh sound during the band’s hiatus. While Vampire Weekend is “on the horizon,” it’s quite far away for Tomson at the moment. His bandmates have been extremely successful on their own; Chris Baio, who’s been touring his solo album “The Names” all summer, Ezra Koenig, who has his own Beats radio show “Time Crisis” that airs every other Sunday, and Rostam Batmanglij, who departed from the band in January to pursue his solo career full-time has an album “I Had A Dream That You Were Mine” which features his friend Hamilton Leithauser, which is due to drop September 23.

Tomson’s solo project, entitled "Dams of the West" is set to release a debut album later this Autumn. The record, entitled “Youngish American” features ten tracks, their new single “Death Wish” included in the list.

The lyric video for "Death Wish" has been live on youtube for about a week now; directed by Emily Tomson, the solo artist’s wife, is a 3-minute piece featuring Tomson doing a series of chores- mopping, folding his large pile of basketball jerseys, even chopping vegetables. The track itself is reminiscent of Vampire Weekend songs, with a staccato drum line with a piano-based melody. However, Tomson’s usage of electric guitar and bass gives the tune a stronger rock ‘n’ roll edge. It’s lyrics focus on “trying to fix the fixable things” of life, which can consist of paying bills, coming to face the truth of reality versus your childhood expectations of it. Tomson seems frustrated with the world and everything he’s accomplished so far in his 3-ish decades on this planet, he’s now just starting to get the hang of it.

Like him, Vampire Weekend fans are just starting to get the hang of how interminable this hiatus has been- three years ago Vampire Weekend released Modern Vampires of the City… hopefully, this album can brighten our spirits, and help us fix the fixable void in our music library.

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

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12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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