Choons: right now I’m totally into Harmony Hall by Vampire Weekend. Usually I’d see the name of the band and think “whaaa?!” and wonder if it’s trying to appeal to a certain teenage demographic and so steer clear since I am most certainly not in that age category. Props go to Stephenie Meyer for making vampires mainstream and, well, a little lame, not to mention synonymous with teenage angst. Nice work, Music Producers. Somewhere in the hallowed halls of record production there’s clearly a department whose sole job is to find a suitable name from a vault of cookie-cutter boyband-sounding ham-fest names that they pluck these crazies from. I can imagine the board meeting. “You fellas have a great sound. We want to market you well so let’s give you a name that’ll appeal to the mainstream market of hormone-fuelled adolescents. Any ideas?”
Terrible band name aside though, this is a chooooon!! Harmony Hall!! I highly recommend it. Even if you feel a little guilty listening to a band who are likely idolised and fantasied over by kids a third of my age. Dangerous though. Stick this in your Apple Music or Spotify and they’ll start suggesting other tracks from “similar” bands. I threw Spotify a curve ball though. Created a playlist with this, then ACDC tracks, then a bit of T’pau etc. Mwahahaha..
Eclectic.
Yeah, music is life.
