Frontman Ezra Koenig introduced new members and promised that the new songs "are good"

Vampire Weekend have confirmed that their fourth album “is done”.

Appearing at End of The Road Festival in Dorset, the New York band, led by Ezra Koenig, performed a greatest hits set that spanned their three albums, from 2008’s self-titled debut to 2010’s ‘Contra’ and 2013’s ‘Modern Vampires of the City’. At one point, a fan shouted out to inquire about the progress of their highly anticipated, which was due for released this year, but has now been delayed until 2019.

“When’s the new album coming out?” Keonig replied. “Oh, who cares? No, it’s done. We’ll talk about that later.”

Further on in the set, he explained: “We don’t wanna make big deal about it, but this is out first time playing in the UK since Reading & Leeds 2014. We agreed to do [End of The Road this year] a long time ago and, yeah, we hoped we’d be doing a victory lap with our new album. But, you know, this is what happens. Life goes on. We promise we’ll come back to the UK and we’ll play new songs. And they’re good – I promise.”

Koenig also took the opportunity to introduce new members of the band, following the departure of founding member Rostam Batmanglij: guitarist Brian Jones and Greta Morgan, whom Koenig described as his “third cousin by marriage”.

There were no new songs during Vampire Weekend’s End Of The Road show, though they played five new songs at a Lollapalooza after show last month.