Ahead of the release of their new album, Vampire Weekend have launched a podcast. The first episode of the Vampire Campfire podcast was filmed by director Tom Mull, and you can watch it below.

In the episode, Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, and Chris Tomson discuss their new album and more while seated around a campfire. At one point, Koenig reads a poem listing the influences behind Only God Was Above Us:

20th century New York City,
Mistaken memories of mediaeval Manhattan,
When the Beastie Boys lived in LA,
Pre-punk, Proto-punk, K-punk,
Not really A-Punk, junk, Big Muff,
Hoboken, Nutley, Yonkers, Cos Cob,
The five towns, the five families,
Sisters of Mercy, Brother Lawrence,
Book of Hours, Russian icons,
Sand Mandalas, Natarajas,
Hex Sign barns, Ando churches,
Whirling dervishes, Psychedelic Gershwin,
Wire, Plain Jane indie, David Axelrod,
Steven Siegel, New Wave hot dogs,
Old World elegance, The RZA, The GZA,
Old Dirty Bastard, Inspectach Deck,
Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah,
And … M E T H O D M A N,
Ball hogs, Sandhogs,
And the greatest construction project
In the history of Western Civilization.

Only God Was Above Us is out April 5. The album is led by the songs “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops.”

Read the Sunday Review of Floodland, the second album from Koenig influence Sisters of Mercy.