Vampire Weekend announce new album Only God Was Above Us
thefader.comVampire Weekend have officially announced a new album called Only God Was Above Us. The fifth full-length project from the New York rock band arrives on April 5 via Sony.
Two new songs, "Capricorn" and "Gen-X Cops," will be released on February 16. The reveal comes a few days after the band teased the album with a short video clip, a website update complete with a phone number to text, and a photograph taken by Steven Siegel of a junked New Jersey subway train.
Read Next: Vampire Weekend could be teasing their fifth album Fans on Reddit deduced what the album's cover would be after looking through other photos in Siegel's series — the picture shows the inside of a subway car with a figure reading an issue of the Daily News with the headline "Only God Was Above Us." The quote is from a story about a flight from Hawaii that nearly ended in disaster after an explosion tore the roof off of the plane.
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