Vampire Weekend's new album, Only God Was Above Us, has almost no high points. The New York band is perhaps the most wonderfully contradictory entity that independent pop has produced this century.

From being the fashionable group, they began to be questioned or even demolished. His new album includes some of his best compositions of their career and some of the best creative ideas for fixing and producing them that they have ever had. The band has delivered their best ( Modern Vampires of the City) and their worst album (Father of the Bride) But above all they have seen how all the elements that defined their idiosyncrasy, have been culturally questioned, if not directly demolished. They observe the New York before 9/11, the one that people like them would end up gentrifying, in tributes to very Vampire Weekend figures such as the art dealer and tax evader Mary Boone in the issue which bears his name. The world has not only turned against them, it could be said that it has collided against them. They didn't even drink a beer. How stale.