Ezra Koenig reveals how he got Jude Law on a Vampire Weekend track

Publish Date
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 3:27PM
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At the end of February, Vampire Weekend officially released the three bonus tracks from the Japanese release of Father of the Bride to the rest of the world.

The last bonus track, “Lord Ullin's Daughter,” features actor Jude Law reading a 200-year-old Scottish poem over the band's “Big Blue” instrumental.

The feature came as a surprise to fans who may not have known how close Koenig is to Law.

In a new interview, the singer explained how the track came to be. “I’ve known Jude for a long time. He’s come out to Vampire Weekend shows, which we always appreciated. He did a voice on Neo Yokio, the cartoon I made. So we, you know, we’ve had a relationship for a while,” he said.

As for the track itself, Koenig said, “I had this idea, basically he’s reading an old Scottish poem, ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter.’ This poem contains this line about, ‘My bonny bride.’ It's like a really beautiful poem. And I guess when I was working on this record I knew it was gonna be called Father of the Bride,” he explained.

This article was first published on iheart.com and is republished here with permission

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