There has been a buzz of late around this album, Contra, and at first listen you can understand why. It's happy and infectious and feels like you should be drinking Horchata. In all honestly, I wasn't the biggest fan of their first album. I mean there were a few tracks that were cool like Walcott but nothing in this league. It's like these kids did it the right way; they took the experiences of last album, grew up a little but still retained the sense of fun that's synonymous with them. Oh and adding small elements of pixel electro doesn't hurt either.
The one song to me that stands out substantially for me is Giving Up the Gun. It just sounds a little cleaner and not like them so much at all. By which I mean; I don't smell the island air, it's more citylights musk. Close second is I Think You're a Contra but that appeals to the chilled moody side of me, especially the Violins (I'm a sucker for Violins).
"When I was 17, I had wrists like steal and I felt complete.
But now my body fades behind the brass charade and I'm obsolete"
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Hi IHEARTASQUARE,
On behalf of XL Recordings and Vampire Weekend, we would kindly ask you not to post copies of "Contra" on your site (or any non-preview tracks from Vampire Weekend's new album - street date 11th Jan UK & 12th Jan US).
We do appreciate that you are fans of / are promoting Vampire Weekend, but the label and artist would greatly appreciate your co-operation in removing your links to the pirate files in question.
Thank you for respecting the artist's and label’s wishes and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then full length versions of "Horchata" and "White Sky" are available for fans and bloggers to link to / post / host etc at www.vampireweekend.com . Additionally, all three tracks from the Vampire Weekend Meets Toy Selectah bonus CD "Contra Megamelt" ("Cousinz", "Contramelt A" and "Contramelt B") have now also been designated as fan previews for sharing ahead of release … .. for further details of the new album, on-line promotions, videos and 2010 shows, check-out the official site, as well as the band’s Myspace at www.myspace.com/vampireweekend and XL’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/XLRecordings ... .. and keep an eye on these official sources for details of further news, preview material and on-line promotions.
As a special, New Year’s gesture to fans and bloggers, an exclusive preview stream of the full album is now also available at the band’s MySpace page ... .. this is for hyper-linking ONLY and for streaming by fans directly off the band’s MySpace , so please reciprocate this goodwill gesture by NOT ripping or embedding these files ... .. similarly, a streaming widget is now also available off the band’s web-site for fans and bloggers to embed / enjoy pre-release but – again – please only use the official widget and don’t offer or embed ripped / pirated files.
Thanks Again & Best for 2010,
WEB SHERIFF