Contra View large Image Artist Vampire Weekend Format Audio CD Average Rating Our Price £3.99

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ljg
this album is a really great feel good album, the music isnt the most thought about but really lifts your spirits, i have listened to this over and over again, great!
Iain Hudson
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!
Mr. Anthony Butler
Absolutely love this second album, keeping their unique style but experimenting with different sounds and rhythms it's a great album. Possibly not as initially catchy as the first but easily as good if not better than the first once you get into it.
E. Goodman
Vampire Weekend's 'Contra' is what you'd get if you threw Jimmy Buffet,MGMT, Paul Simon and Jason Mraz into a recording studio, gave them a bontempi keyboard, a Major Morgan and a couple of bongos and cowbells and asked them to write an album inspired by The Cure and traditional African Music. I like all of those things seperatly, and after two listens, I like the sum of their parts too. This is fresh, original, bizarre but very cheery stuff and it's hard not to like it. My stand out track is Giving up the Gun - many of the other songs sound a bit samey but you are almost glad of it. Vampire Weekend should have done the theme to this year's World Cup - it would have been fab!
D. S. Hutchison
This is a superb album, vaguely reminiscent of Paul Simon's Graceland. Tremendous rhythms, creative melodies and allround good stuff. Well worth a go!