The first new big release of 2010 was Vampire Weekend's second album called Contra that came out on January 12th.
Now, I have given this album a listen about a half dozen times and have to say I think it sucks. It's no where near as good as their first album that came out in 2008 I really liked their debut album so I was excited to hear some new music from Vampire Weekend. What a huge disappointment it is. It seems like the band is trying to hard to do too much, it just sounds to my ears anyways, like a big mish mash of lots of ideas but none of them coming across very well.
There are a few good songs, my faves being a song called White Sky (very Paul Simon like, Graceland era)I like the oohh's and ahhh's in it. Another good song is Holiday, and 2 other songs Taxi Cab and Cousins are alright.
I would give this album a 4 out of 10. Another thing, whats with the shitty album cover?
Vampire Weekend will be playing The Edmonton Events Centre March 14th, the show is sold out.
