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Review & setlist: Vampire Weekend exude joy at TD Garden
Vampire Weekend treated the Boston crowd to a playful, energetic, career-spanning set in support of their recent album "Only God Was Above Us." When the three members of Vampire Weekend—vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, bassist Chris Baio, and drummer Chris Tomson—took the stage inside Boston’s TD Garden Friday night, they did so in a decidedly minimalist manner. Playing in front of a black backdrop bearing only the band’s name, clad in shades of white and gray, the trio tears through three hits from early in its catalog: “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” “Holiday,” and “I Stand Corrected.” While the energy inside the arena is high from the beginning, in some ways the set does not truly start until partway through the fourth song.
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