"I wrote most of this song in December of 2005, we came together as a band a few months later. Ezra [Koenig] wrote pretty much all of the lyrics on our debut album, but this song was an exception. I was interested in creating a piece of music that was built around a cello, a kick drum, and a vocal that told a story. Robyn's 'Be Mine' was an inspiration."
"From the first time we tried playing it as a band with rock instruments, it happened to work. That was a happy accident, but I always intended for this original version to see the light of day someday. The strings in this version were recorded in my dorm room at Columbia in 2006. It's just one cellist and one violinist that I built up into an ensemble with multi-tracking."
Rostam finished and released the original demo and an instrumental of "Campus," a song he first created at Columbia University in 2005. The original arrangement centers on strings and classical elements, built around a cello, a kick drum, and a narrative vocal, differing from the later alternative rock band arrangement. An unfinished version appeared on MySpace in 2006 and circulated online for years. The finished original is available digitally and as a limited-edition heavyweight 7-inch single. Fifty-one percent of proceeds from the master recording will be donated to Palestine Legal, CHIRLA, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and the Sudanese American Physicians Association.
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