“On our first album, most of the songs were written in college, and it had a very youthful vibe,” Koenig told Rolling Stone. Rather than merely flexing his intellect, his canny observations now seem geared toward making a difference in the world. His music has become scragglier yet no less meticulous.
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For Koenig, doing so involves taking himself less seriously but also interacting with the outside world in a more earnest, engaged capacity. Whereas Father Of The Bride is largely about finding your place in unfamiliar settings, making sense of a new life in a world that’s far more broken than you realized. “Age is an honor - it’s still not the truth.” It was an album about mortality, about getting older and suddenly feeling out of place in familiar surroundings. “Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth,” he sang. Modern Vampires Of The City found Koenig suddenly conscious of his finiteness and increasingly jaded about the workings of this world. It also works wonders as summertime backyard party music. Although much of it defies easy interpretation, taken together the project’s themes resonate loudly into this moment. Koenig considers it a double album, but unlike recent two-disc streaming grabs from Drake and Migos, not a second feels wasted.
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At 18 tracks, Father Of The Bride is both dense and sprawling, rich with ideas and Easter eggs and dazzling musical flourishes. In doing so, one of rock’s most thoughtful songwriters has given us much to unpack. Say this out loud to remind yourself how crazy it is: Donald Trump is president of the United States.Īny thinking person has a lot to wrap their mind around these days.
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Realities that used to be jarring and unsettling are now the air we breathe. Bullets regularly rain down on schoolchildren. Culture warriors seize upon the most benign statements in bad faith to feed a bottomless hunger for outrage. Worldwide, fascism sometimes seems to be rising even faster than the sea level. The adjustments in Koenig’s own life feel minor compared to the way society at large has transformed. Ezra Koenig takes us inside 'Father Of The Bride.'īut much of that is normal growing-up stuff.