These guys make "African" music.
Two years ago, I had a friend. Let's call him Josiah. Josiah had what I'd call "good" taste in music. One day, he put on a CD and started excitedly dancing around and singing about Oxford commas and Cape Cod. At first, I laughed and said, "Josiah, why are you getting so into Jimmy Buffett right now—are you rocking out to this ironically?"
Then the next track started, after throwing up a little in my mouth, I was forced to proclaim, "Jesus fucking Christ Josiah, you just followed a Jimmy Buffett song with a Sublime song, why the fuck would anyone do that ever? Are you a sociopath and I've just never noticed?" Josiah looked perplexed. "What are you talking about?! This isn't Sublime or Jimmy Buffett." "It isn't?" I said. I was seriously trippin' at this point. Then it clicked. "Dude, Josiah, why did you buy a new Paul Simon record? Do you know who does that? No one." At this point, we both realized that neither of us were joking. Josiah said simply "Dude, it's this band of kids from the Hamptons who just got into Graceland. They're called Vampire Weekend and they're the most original and exciting band of 2008!"
