Contra [Bonus CD] (2010)

On Contra, Vampire Weekend make Auto-Tune and real live guitars, Mexican drinks, Jamaican riffs, and Upper West Side strings belong together. "Horchata" features a four-on-the-floor beat, thumb piano, rubbery synth bass, and massed harmonies -- almost everything except the spry guitars that defined their first album. "Diplomat's Son" adds samples of M.I.A. and Toots & the Maytals -- what you'd expect to hear on a young globetrotter's iPod -- to nostalgic chamber pop. Yet Vampire Weekend also tell stories like "Holiday," an ... Read More

On Contra, Vampire Weekend make Auto-Tune and real live guitars, Mexican drinks, Jamaican riffs, and Upper West Side strings belong together. "Horchata" features a four-on-the-floor beat, thumb piano, rubbery synth bass, and massed harmonies -- almost everything except the spry guitars that defined their first album. "Diplomat's Son" adds samples of M.I.A. and Toots & the Maytals -- what you'd expect to hear on a young globetrotter's iPod -- to nostalgic chamber pop. Yet Vampire Weekend also tell stories like "Holiday," an Iraqi war protest set to skanking guitars, while the joy that soared through their debut pops up on "White Sky," which boasts a melody so irrepressible that Paul Simon just might want to borrow it. [Contra was also released with bonus tracks.] ~ Heather Phares, Rovi Read Less

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