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Contra |  | Artist: Vampire Weekend
Label: XL Recordings
Category: Music
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 44
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 634904042929
EAN: 0634904042929
ASIN: B002JN74WI
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Horchata | | • | White Sky | | • | Holiday | | • | California English | | • | Taxi Cab | | • | Run | | • | Cousins | | • | Giving Up The Gun | | • | Diplomat's Son | | • | I Think Ur A Contra |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
You're the only band in the world to have moulded the fruity shimmering of sun-baked African pop with the leather-jacketed cool of 21st century New York rock 'n' roll, delivered it with the diligence of first-class honours students with tidy haircuts, and become a universally-lauded if unlikely international sensation as a result. You're not about to change your spots now, are you. It should come as no surprise therefore that with Contra, Vampire Weekend have delivered another full length album packed full with the same near-flawless, feather-weight indie with occasional knock-out tendencies as their eponymous first. What may be surprising though is how different a route they travelled to get to that same point this time around. Guitars are banished, or at least faded back in the mix to play textural bit parts and little more. Minimal electronic undercurrents earn a leading role, plugging a live cable into their principal artery and receiving little in the way of resistance from the main body. So the near-yodelling square dance of "White Sky", tip-toe harpsichord dub calypso of "Taxi Cab", Wacky Races jerky surf of "Cousins" and the Strokes-esque 4/4 infectiousness of "Giving Up The Gun" are all given a modern and thoroughly refreshing jab in the rear. And yet they all still sound, to some extent, like they could have been recorded for Paul Simon's seminal Gracelands. A compositional triumph that may side-step the immediacy of their debut, but turns out all the richer for it. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 33
 INCREDIBLE February 7, 2010
C. Gunn (Oxford, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the perfect follow up album, it links well with the first but bursts into life spanning various genres making this one magical and musically inspiring album. Listen to it, now imagine singing and dancing to that at the summer festivals in the sunshine and mud, PERFECT.
Contra v Vampire Weekend. February 5, 2010
D. MacDonnell (Colchester, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All in all, I think that Contra is a really good album. Songs like Cousins and Holiday get me dancing whenever I hear them. However, I'm not too sure about it being better than Vampire Weekend. Firstly, Vampire Weekend is, in my opinion, one of the best albums ever, and every track on the album could probably get a top 10 hart placing. On Contra however, although the good songs are brilliant and probably better than the good songs on Vampire Weekend, such as A-Punk and Oxford Comma. I think, though, that this, the sustained brilliance on Vampire weekend makes it altogether the best of the two Vampire Weekend albums.
better than the last...and that was good January 28, 2010
Beryl Markham (Horsham Uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i was introduced to this band by my nephew. First cd was very good, this is better. The band's affection for tightly wound guitar riffs and brisk african rythyms is shown up very well, and their comparison to some of Paul Simon's classics does no harm at all. The lyrics are also esoteric and leave you hanging in the air wanting more. The music, is light airy and clever.
Vampire Weekend have enhanced their unique feel good style. January 12, 2010
Dragonlord (Cornwall)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought that Vampire Weekends dubut album was the best album of 2008 and Contra will be a very strong contender for the best album of 2010. Their music has the same feel good factor as Bob Marley's reggae. I love the way they use African drums and their music is so catchy it makes you want to dance or relax depending on what mood you are in at the time. Vampire Weekend have blossomed and spread their wings into something even more beautiful. Some of the songs are bit more rocky and their lyrics are very poetic at times. If you consider yourself a lover of music and would like to hear something different and exciting then you owe to yourself to give Vampire Weekend a try.
Just one last thing I thought you might like to know is that some members of Vampire Weekend did a side project with a band called Discovery last year heres the link for you:LP
Great album, one that really grows on you :) June 30, 2010
Iain Hudson (England)
I've loved this band since I first heard Blake's Got A New Face on the iTunes song of the week however when I first heard this I thought that it wasn't anywhere near as good as the first album, but it alowly grew and grew on me and now I like it even more than I like the first!
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