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So it seems like the wait is almost over and Vampire Weekend are set to return with their fourth album. According to frontman Ezra Koenig, the album is “80% done” and has working title of Mitsubishi Macchiato.

Speaking about the new, Koenig explained how working with Kanye West has influenced the new record. He also dropped names like a plumber allowing his tools to fall out of workbag.

He told Rolling Stone: “I had this experience where I was in the studio with Kanye in Mexico, and it was so different than anything I'd done: One day [Dirty Projectors frontman] Dave Longstreth is there; the next day Big Sean shows up. Sometimes it wasn't people working, just talking about music. I was, like, ‘I like this atmosphere. I need to loosen up.’”

He continued: “So I've been working with this 68-year-old guitarist, Greg Leisz, and this 18-year-old guitarist, Steve Lacy. A bunch of other people have been coming in and out. Now we're moving into the final stage where it's about, ‘How do you take all that energy and reduce it to the sound of the album? It's tricky.”

Quite so.

Koenig was cagey as to what we might expect from the album – their first since 2013’s Modern Vampires Of The City - though he likened the new album to growing older.

“I don't want to say too much about the sound, but this is the first album I'll be making in my thirties, and when a band gets to their fourth album, it's a lot like hitting your thirties and figuring out how to dress: you might love seeing the newest sweatshirt collabs from some brands you like, but at some point you pull it over your head and look in the mirror, like, ‘Hm. This doesn't make sense anymore.’”

So there you have it: the new Vampire Weekend will be like some old clothes that you liked but don’t anymore. Can’t wait to hear that.