purejuice

Vampire Weekend seems too fun and bright to be indie rock, at least by my definition. When I think of indie rock, I think of slouchy recent graduates from liberal arts colleges wearing winter hats even though it's summer and making boring, self-indulgent elevator music on their laptops. Vampire Weekend's songs are a lot sharper and more, dare I say, danceable than bog-standard indie rock. And anyone who rhymes "horchata" with "Balaclava" is doing something right.