Can you believe it’s been five years since Vampire Weekend released Modern Vampires of The City? It feels like only yesterday when I was ordering the record off Urban Outfitters alongside a baby blue Crosley record player.

Our favourite twee princes have performed their first shows in four years. The first show saw them perform their debut self-titled album in full. The second saw them treating us to a taste of their upcoming album. ‘Flower Moon’ is the first new material we’ve heard from the band since Modern Vampires of The City; it was written with Steve Lacy of The Internet. Watch some fan-filmed footage below:

VAMPIRE WEEKEND NEW MUSIC PREVIEW – FLOWER MOON:
Today at their second show at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, CA, Vampire Weekend previewed a snippet of a new song from LP4 called Flower Moon, which features Steve Lacy. https://t.co/lRibHKlZ6P pic.twitter.com/zKDWlrt5gO

— Team Vampire Weekend (@teamvampyweeks) June 17, 2018

That’s not all! The band also brought out a very special guest star for their track ‘I Think Ur A Contra’. Amandla Stenberg (who you may recognise as Rue from The Hunger Games) helped the band out by playing violin for the track. We can’t handle the wholesomeness.

Vampire Weekend performing I Think UR A Contra with Richard Pictures and Amandla Stenberg in violin at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, CA on June 17, 2018

Full video: https://t.co/5j0gtJkKkT pic.twitter.com/0oTPiqjaNH

— Team Vampire Weekend (@teamvampyweeks) June 18, 2018

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