A beginning, a middle and an end. The three essential (but not sufficient) components of a good story. Ezra Koenig gets it right in Hannah Hunt from the Vampire Weekend's album Modern Vampires in the City.
The song tells no new story. A guy and girl in love at first, and then through the inexplicable and often ugly journey of life, somehow fall right of it. So is the case with the singer and this girl called Hannah. What stands about out in the track is not this age-old saga but the visual picture it paints. The crawling vines and weeping willows; the man of faith who could see into the singer's mind; cold beaches and firewood -- the changing landscapes from Providence to Santa Barbara paint a moving image. But the genius of the track is really in the metaphorical representation of the physical journey as the journey in the relationship with Hannah. "Though we live on the US dollar /You and me, we got our own sense of time."
Koenig is a self-proclaimed "name fetishist" and the song has to show for it. The carefully picked out names of places mean something, not to mention the title in alliteration. Set to a soulful sound, a slow rhythm that builds into a crescendo, Hannah Hunt is an acoustic treat, and the visuals, a bonus.
If you find yourself falling out of love today, put on Hannah Hunt.
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About the curator - Aarushi Aggarwal
Aarushi is a senior at college and is majoring in history and international relations. Her music library is as much home to jazz as it is to Indian classical. Her passion for discovering new music far supersedes other equally important things like finishing assignments on time. She loves dogs, coffee and chocolate.
