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Contra
Vampire Weekend
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Overview
Track Listing
1
Horchata
2
White Sky
3
Holiday
4
California Enish
5
Taxi Cab
6
Run
7
Cousins
8
Giving Up theun
9
Diplomat's So
10
I Think Ur a ntra
Details
- Genre: Rock & Pop
- Release Date: January 2010
- Label: XL
- Format: CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio Format: Stereo
- Producer: Rostam Batmanglij
- Engineer: Justin Gerrish; Rostam Batmanglij; Shane Stoneback
Music Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.56) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]rainy, confident and generally awesome....The drums are bigger, the guitars are faster, and the songs are outfitted with synth beats and hip-hop, reggae and electro accents."
Spin (p.61) - "CONTRA is more fully formed, a '70s-style record-type record. It's their version of the Talking Heads' MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD..."
Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith its melodic beauty, orchestral invention, rhythmic subtlety and metaphysical wit -- it's still unmistakably Vampire Weekend."
Uncut (p.36) - Ranked #13 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums of 2010" -- "[C]lever and catchy songs loaded with Clash allusions."
CMJ - "[I]t retains all of the band's sunny key elements: clean electric guitars, buoyant keyboards and poppy African rhythms..."
Paste (magazine) (p.61) - "CONTRA opener 'Horchata' displays a caliber of pop songcraft and melodic intuition that gives The Shins' James Mercer a run for his harmony..."
