A Musical Sorbet

Just to cleanse you palette from all the Doctor Who talk, I'm going to write a little bit about band that I love: Vampire Weekend. I listened to their first album a lot when I was living in Ohio, often when I was driving up to see Rachel et al in Ann Arbor. Once I hit the exit for Ypsilanti, I could start the album and be at the house before the album was over. They got a lot a flack for sounding like they ripped off Paul Simon's Graceland (mostly based on the fact that they incorporated the African drum rhythms). Now since I'm a huge Paul Simon fan, one might think that I wouldn't want to listen to the album. But my take was, Graceland was such a great album, even an album that a diluted version of Graceland would still be great, and it is.