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Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig is talking to Spin about how the band’s new album is shaping up. "One thing that’s interesting about this album is that, to me, I think it has a wider range of feelings and tempos than the first album," Koenig says. "There are faster songs than what you’ve heard — or what at least feels like our fastest song we’ve ever made — and also [the] slowest [song] we’ve ever made. There are songs where I’m singing very high, and I think also the lowest I’ve ever sang on a VW album."

"We’re on a deadline here," Koenig says, although no release timeline has been given for the follow-up to 2008′s Vampire Weekend. "We’re a hardworking band. We don’t take vacations."

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