Tail end of 2013, I noticed this album topping both popmatters' and pitchfork's lists of the best albums of the year - intriguing, after a pair of nice but not, for mine, outstanding predecessors in Vampire Weekend and Contra. But this is one that I'm out of step with the critics on - to my ears, Modern Vampires is perfectly pleasant listening (the stand out is "Steps") but not a lot more.
