- Artist
- Vampire Weekend
- Album
- Modern Vampires of the City
Early reviews. Based on 5 critics so far. The Breakdown will settle as more outlets weigh in.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Slant | 4.5/5 | 90 | “Modern Vampires of the City charts the perils and pleasures of adulthood with impressive, singular range.” |
| Uncut | 9/10 | 90 | “New Yorkers at the top of their game on elaborate love letter to their hometown…” |
| Beats Per Minute | 85% | 85 | “Vampire Weekend have gone from puckish indie rockers to a fully formed indie rock institution, full of the battered feelings and world weariness. Three albums in and Vampire Weekend are…” |
| PopMatters | 8/10 | 80 | “On paper, Vampire Weekend is mind-numbingly precocious in the way that turns many people away from indie rock's incessant hipsterisms. Frontman Ezra Koenig” |
| musicOMH | 4/5 | 80 | “When Vampire Weekend released their debut album in 2008, they were selling a particularly American brand of upper-crust New England Ivy League” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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