Okay so usually every day (I’ve been slacking lately it’s only been a couple of times a week oops) I search google and youtube for “LP3” and “Vampire Weekend LP3” and obviously nothing ever comes up but I’ve been hopeful and just now I searched google and nothing came up but then I searched youtube and I came across this titled “VW_lp3_track_6_demo_ver_3_take_2_01-06-2012.mp3”

Which obviously is a file name that stands for “Vampire Weekend LP3 track 6 demo version 3 take 2 January 6, 2012” (seems kind of excessive omg) and it was uploaded on March 7, 2012, it already has almost 30 views and it was uploaded the user fernandolodeiro1

So I did some research and googled his name (Fernando Lodeiro) and he has a website but nothing Vampire Weekend came up so I googled (Fernando Lodeiro Vampire Weekend) and on the first page the Contra wiki page came up and if you scroll almost all the way down under “Production” look whos name comes up!! It says Fernando is the engineering assistant (I looked on the wiki page for the self titled and he wasn’t there) so anyways to confirm I looked in the Contra booklet (you can too if you own Contra) and on the second last page near the bottom it says “Engineered by Rostam Batmanglij, Shane Stoneback and Justin Gerrish, assisted by Fernando Lodeiro”

So in conclusion this seems pretty legit and it sounds like them and wow of COURSE I listened to it and I can’t even handle myself I can’t put anything into words so for your listening pleasure, here is an audio post of the song. Enjoy bbs!!