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You can now stream Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album Contra on their myspace page. Go forth and ring back your thoughts. And if you’re in the New York City area, you’d be stupid to not try to get into this.
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yes.
thanks for the heads up. loving it so far!
but I am surprised at the heavy use of auto-tune/vocoder.
so 2000-and-late?
The album is pretty ‘meh’ so far.
YES!!
i’m enjoying it so far.
‘California English’ is the only standout track imo.
Doesn’t sound like VW has evolved much or tried to push the envelope. *shrugs*
Real fans wait for the real thing.
Bahahaha
Really liking this new album, definitely going to be picking it up. Shame all the UK dates are sold out. Another article about Contra here http://bit.ly/8BwFM3
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