Ezra Koenig photo by Kirstie Shanley

The Talkhouse is a website where artists review current albums by other artists—you may remember when Lou Reed defended Kanye's "seriously smart" Yeezus there. Now, the site has enlisted Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig to take on Drake's excellent new LP Nothing Was the Same. Read the results here.

Koenig took an unorthodox route. Rather than a conventional review, he penned a 1,195-word treatise on "motherfuckers who never loved us," a response to Nothing Was the Same's mean, propulsive highlight "Worst Behaviour". The piece recounts a (possibly fictional) time in 2007 when Vampire Weekend opened for a Danish band in Portland—"I should point out that [the singer] Hans' band was in our Top 8 at the time," Koenig writes—but when the band later played New York, Hans expressed no interest in hanging out.

Koenig gave the album a "10 outta 10" (note, the Talkhouse does not typically give numerical scores). He wrote:

I gotta be honest — I didn’t listen to the whole thing. Obviously, it’s good. You think a Canadian child actor would be this successful as a rapper if he wasn’t good? The dude was sitting on 25 mil at age 25! (I would love to see some documentation on that, by the way. I’m not saying he didn’t have 25 mil, I’m just saying some of that was probably real estate and maybe like potential earnings from complicated endorsement deals.) People love him because he’s good! He gets 10 outta 10, OK? I have heard SOME of it. I heard that one called “Worst Behaviour,” the “motherfuckers never loved us” one – it really struck a chord. There are SO many motherfuckers out there. I’ve been making music since I was seven years old (started with piano) so I’ve been betrayed more times than I can count. You know how many people talk shit behind your back and then try to be your best friend over the course of 22 years in the industry?? Drake only got into music like five years ago, so if you see how angry he is — IMAGINE HOW I FEEL.

Of course, he concluded, "FUCK HANS... TO SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL THE MOTHERFUCKERS WHO NEVER LOVED US, CHECK OUT: http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend/motherfuckers"

Read Koenig's full review here and watch Pitchfork.tv's segment of "Over/Under" with Vampire Weekend: