TRACK BY TRACK: Vampire Weekend's 'Father of The Bride'

4. “This Life”

EASILY my personal favorite song on the record, “This Life” is Vampire Weekend at their peak. It’s happy and bright and embodies everything we know and love about the band. It’s very obvious the band draws influence from many people on this track, as the chorus itself is almost directly taken from ILoveMakonnen’s track, “Tonight”. The song itself looks at a crumbling relationship and examines just where things went wrong. However, this upbeat tune sounds like the opposite of a breakup song in my opinion.

Favorite Lyric: “And darling, our disease is the same one as the trees / Unaware that they've been living in a forest...”