Chris Baio – Unsung Sundays https://unsungsundays.com What you should be listening to. Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:46:56 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.1 Baio: The Names https://unsungsundays.com/album-reviews/baio-the-names/ Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:01:28 +0000 http://unsungsundays.com/?post_type=album_reviews&p=467 Chris Baio’s first solo record is a wildly successful debut that solidifies Baio as a trend-setter in his genres. While Vampire Weekend blends afrobeat and worldbeat styles with indie rock and alternative, Baio’s solo record experiments much more with electronic stylings.

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]]> Chris Baio is probably more familiar to you as the bassist of Vampire Weekend, otherwise known as the current hipster band du jour (they’re actually awesome, let’s be honest). The Names is his first solo record, and it’s both a lot of fun and a total departure.

The Names is a good mix of electronic and pop that’s really nothing like Vampire Weekend. Where they specialize in weird genre-tripping music, The Names almost feels more conventional (or about as conventional as trippy electronic pop can be).

That doesn’t mean it’s not a great record; it just means that it’s a bit of a different record. It’s one of the catchiest I’ve heard this year, and it’s got some wild sounds and interesting experiments on it.

I wonder if the next Vampire Weekend record will borrow from this style…

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]]> Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City https://unsungsundays.com/album-reviews/vampire-weekend-modern-vampires-city/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:05:19 +0000 http://unsungsundays.com/?post_type=album_reviews&p=780 Vampire Weekend’s third record is a feast for the ears, easily one of the best records of the year, and perhaps one of the best in many — with a sound so refined that it makes Vampire Weekend absolutely impossible to ignore.

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]]> In a year loaded with fantastic music, Vampire Weekend’s record stands close to the top of the heap. If you’ve never heard these guys before, there really isn’t an easy way to describe what they sound like. I like to use the word “joyous,” but I think that undersells them.

One of my favourite blogs, Henry’s Music Blog, calls Modern Vampires of the City “the best album I’ve heard all year”, and goes so far as to call it the second-best of the past decade. I don’t know if I’ve earned the right to say anything that wild, but this record is absurdly good. Who knows, maybe Henry’s right. Years from now, we could look back on Modern Vampires of the City as one of the decade’s best releases.

Check out the lead single, Diane Young (which is also a hysterical video). If that’s not enough to convince you to buy this record right now, give Step and Ya Hey a whirl. (And if you’ve never heard of them, check out their first two records, the self-titled Vampire Weekend and Contra.)

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