| 2021 | |
| Cover: | Vampire Weekend – Harmony Hall.png |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Vampire Weekend |
| Album: | Father of the Bride |
| A-Side: | "Harmony Hall" (double A-side) |
| Released: | January 24, 2019 |
| Length: | 1:38 |
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"2021" is a song by American indie pop band Vampire Weekend. Alongside "Harmony Hall", it served as the double A-side lead single for their fourth studio album Father of the Bride, and was released on January 24, 2019, by Columbia Records.[2] "2021" was later re-released on December 22, 2021 as a collaboration 12" single alongside "Talking" by Haruomi Hosono.[3]
The "sparse lovelorn ballad" is built around a sample of the ambient track "Talking", composed in the 1980s by Haruomi Hosono for Japanese retail company Muji. It features a soft pulsing synth and fingerpicked guitars, along with a distorted vocal sample of the word "boy" sung by Jenny Lewis.[2] [4] [5]
Credits adapted from Qobuz.[6]
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