Hannah Hunt, by Vampire Weekend.
There are three bands that the whole family can get behind — and that the whole family has seen live — and one of them is Vampire Weekend. This song off their third album holds some quiet meaning for me like the rest of that 2013 record with all its foreboding, as if they knew what might come next.
My most vivid memory of listening to this album alone was in the car on a long drive back from the USMNT-Germany match at RFK that June, during a dark time at home, when we had our own warnings and rumblings afoot, and I had this thing on repeat for hours.
When this album came out, it was at the peak of my interest in (what was then called Rap) Genius, and I still get notifications about my notes on the lyrics to some of these songs. Annotate the web! What could go wrong.
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Mostly guitars here, but I couldn’t resist a little MIDI marimba and then was looking for a spot to drop a beat and realized there’s a spot for that when it gets “loud” at the end.