Vampire Weekend announce fifth studio album Only God Was Above Us

Alt-rock darlings Vampire Weekend have announced Only God Was Above Us, their fifth studio album – and first in five years – out April 5, 2024, via Columbia Records.

The beginnings of the LP stretch back to 2019-2020, a period during which frontman Ezra Koenig wrote the bulk of the lyrics. The album was recorded all over the world, from Manhattan to Los Angeles to London and Tokyo, and was was primarily produced by Koenig and longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann and mastered by Emily Lazar.

The title of the project is taken from it's artwork, comprised of photos taken from a subway graveyard in New Jersey in 1988 by Steven Siegel. In the album's cover, a man in a toppled subway car reads the May 1, 1988 edition of the New York Daily News — the cover story detailing the horrific explosion that tore the roof off Aloha Airlines flight 243. The headline quotes a survivor: “ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.”

Vampire Weekend’s last full-length offering was 2019’s Father of the Bride, the band’s third consecutive #1 album on the Billboard 200, also earning them their second Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album.

Only God Was Above Us can be pre-ordered here, and is available physically on CD, standard black vinyl, limited edition clear vinyl - with an alternate album cover available exclusively at Independent retailers.

Check out the official track listing below:

‘Ice Cream Piano’

‘Classical’

‘Capricorn’

‘Connect’

‘Prep-School Gangsters’

‘The Surfer’

‘Gen-X Cops’

‘Mary Boone’

‘Pravda’

‘Hope’