Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it's Vampire Weekend's B-side "Ladies of Cambridge" which you can buy here or Listen to "Ladies of Cambridge" down below and read about it after the jump.



This is so you do not sleep, because right now you are sleeping. “Ladies of Cambridge” the possibly ee cummings nodding B-side to the “Mansard Roof” 7-inch single, piecemeals to me an explanation as to why I like Vampire Weekend so much, something that has baffled me since I mopped my own sweat—from my brow, from my neck—with a three day old napkin while watching them play in a concrete room in the summer, baffled me since I rode the local-running subway all the way to 116th Street early on a tired afternoon to see them play outside in the late summer sun, baffled me since I listened to Benjamin Kunkel’s insanely boring and long introduction speech before they played at a party in a synagogue for books on tape. Why do I like this? I’ve asked myself about C-list Beyonces and ‘90s mosh metal and not expected a decisive answer; stupid undictateable taste is what it is. But Vampire Weekend, though that answer should be easy, it isn’t.

“Ladies of Cambridge,” which sounds like milkshake-sharing music, is perfect. Being the non-album B-side to a 7-inch single shouldn’t put baby in a corner in the democratized MP3 world of today. But why aren’t the blogs on fire? I’m on fire, so is “Ladies of Cambridge.” Here’s why (I think?):