Vampire Weekend - Contra Album

Tracklist

1	Giving Up The Gun
2	White Sky
3	I Think Ur A Contra
4	California English
5	Horchata
6	Cousins
7	Diplomat's Son
8	Taxi Cab
9	Run

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
XL CD 429, XLCD429	Vampire Weekend	Contra ‎(CD, Album)	XL Recordings, XL Recordings	XL CD 429, XLCD429	Europe	2010
LAB 10028-2	Vampire Weekend	Contra ‎(CD, Album)	XL Recordings, Lab 344	LAB 10028-2	Brazil	2010
XL LP 429	Vampire Weekend	Contra ‎(LP, Album)	XL Recordings	XL LP 429	Europe	2010
XLCD429JX	Vampire Weekend	Contra ‎(CD, Ltd)	XL Recordings	XLCD429JX	Japan	2010
XL CD 429	Vampire Weekend	Contra ‎(CD, Album)	XL Recordings	XL CD 429	US	2010

Barcodes

• Barcode: 7 798141 335923

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Contra is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, produced by band member Rostam Batmanglij and released in January 2010 on XL Recordings. The album title is intended as a thematic allegory and reference to the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries and the 1987 video game Contra. The album received critical praise and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. It was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork in August 2014. Listen free to Vampire Weekend Contra Horchata, White Sky and more. 10 tracks 36:41. Contra is the second album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released in January 2010 on XL Recordings. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album title is intended as a thematic allegory and a complex reference to the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries, the 1980 The Clash album Sandinista, and partially to the Contra video game. Contra is the second studio album by Vampire Weekend. They tried many new musical styles, including dubbed and slowed vocals, clattering pseudo-punk, African guitar riffs, grand choral swells, and many more over the course of this record. Many of the lyrics on this record are on dense topics, such as young love and Third World strife. Contra debuted at 1 on the Billboard 200 for the week of January 30th, 2010. It sold 124,000 copies during its first week to land them that position on the chart. This record was Vampire Weekends first 1 debut on the chart. It later was certified gold by the RIAA on November 21st, 2011. Contra Q&A. How did this record perform on the charts . The scholarly Upper West Side Soweto of Vampire Weekends debut sounded self-assured, but on Contra, they step out of their ivory tower with just as much confidence. In all senses of the term, this is a sophomore album. The band still flaunts the collegiate sense of discovery that made Vampire Weekend charming - and sometimes too precious - but with more maturity and creativity. The divisive Vampire Weekend return with LP number two, and Contra finds them embracing their eccentricities without shame or apology. Vampire Weekend's second album starts with Horchata, ostensibly a punching bag for people who didn't like their first one. Singer Ezra Koenig rhymes horchata with balaclava, while keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij arranges the song around the polite plinks of marimbas. It's a sweatless calypso, buttoned-up and breezy. So, of course, haters will still find plenty to hate about Contra, and they'll hate it with v. To favorites 1 Download album. Listen album. Indie Rock. Vampire Weekend. Contra is a music album by Vampire Weekend released in 2010. Contra is ranked 380th in the overall chart, 46th in the 2010s, and 11th in the year 2010. This album is rated in the top 5 of all albums on . Vampire Weekends Contra full album arranged for the ukulele It was only a matter of time before their delicious licks got transposed to a Weekend is Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio. They formed Vampire. A review in the June 2019 issue of Q Magazine describes Vampire Weekends new album Father of the Bride as freewheeling & open-armed. Vampire Weekend is Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio. while the music scintillates, Koenigs lyrics seethe with vivid images of danger and decay A song called Sympathy is described as an exuberantly odd hybrid of flamenco and schaffel techno by Dorian Lynskey photo by Rachael Wright. Genre: Indie Rock. Contra works because of its juxtapositions- of natural sounds to processed ones of manners to tantrums of party rhythms to deadpan poetry of black music to white music. Full Review. Best of 2010. Worst of 2010. Suggest Blurb