naw
― only mod can judge me (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
uh huh
― some cooze (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"cousins" is fine
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
it's definitely their most 'rawk', not that that means best or anything
― uptown churl, Thursday, 3 December 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i miss burt_stanton
― max, Thursday, 3 December 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this song is okay, maybe a bit too jokey or cartooney? especially the "i can feel it co-omin." not that they weren't cartooney on the first album, but this feels kind of silly.
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
they were always pretty silly
― only mod can judge me (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ya i take that all back. i've come around to totally liking this song in the last two hours. and the video is great, too.
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if anything is gonna grab me like cape cod kwassa kwass did last time
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Cape Cod and A-Punk left me cold but when I got around to hearing more of the album I learned I liked them.
― Cunga, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
cousins - i like the fast guitar and drums playing but i hate (the) ska
― Zeno, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Contra is now streaming on their My Space page:
http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
― Bee OK, Monday, 4 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"White Sky" sounds so much like Graceland era Paul Simon with a South African mbaqanga band.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
cousins is seriously good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Stereogum Premature Evaluation
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not as good :(
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
took me the better part of a year to come around to the first one. maybe this will be the same?
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I do like Cousins, and generally I like the more muscular sound of some of these tracks. I'm still not crazy about the vocals but they're slightly less wispy here.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
cd rip on what fyi
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
gon' buy the hell out of this in 8 days
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
the 320 rip has leaked, going to listen to that right now.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to the United Artists' show! Any of you guys gonna be there?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing album once again
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I hate the sound of his voice on the last coupla tracks, especially "Contra."
"White Sky" is a thing of beauty though.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the last few tracks are a bit too SECOND ALBUMS but i kind of like his crooning.
like "horchata" the whole affair is a bit ridiculous but people always took them way too seriously anyway. the lil jon lyric should've been hint enough right off the bat
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
can't wait for "omg everyone CHECK IT OUT!!!! i got CONTRA ON VINYL!!!!!" thread
― velko, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
cover is super dope imo - quite likely better than anything within
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
whatup morbs
― the bait vs. radrake david (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
also interesting
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/the-artful-dodgers-santigold-vampire-weekend.html
― tramp steamer, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm more looking forward to hearing the new Santogold than the new Vampire Weekend, tbh.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
digging 'Run'
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really liking some of this on first listen.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
White Sky, Run and Cousins ftw so far.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to 'White Sky' on repeat and watching the snow fall
― FahrvergnĂĽgent (herb albert), Friday, 8 January 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if it bugs Simon Reynolds that they sample M.I.A. He hasn't mentioned it yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is fuckin dawgshit
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
cousins is still my jam
do you think when dudes stumbled across the triple meaning of "Contra" for its geopolitical meaning, its nostalgic video game meaning, and its folk dance meaning, the guys in Vampire Weekend slapped five?
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they just meant it in the sense of "against".
― o. nate, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"against vocal pitch"
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, these guys should get an Auto-Tuner. Oh, whoops - that didn't make people happy, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
where will this album chart ?
last one came in at #17
― tramp steamer, Saturday, 9 January 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
#6 US #3 UK #1 Our Hearts
― moron oil (Gukbe), Saturday, 9 January 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't love this the first time i listened to it, but while listening to the first album on the metro yesterday i realized what a loss it would be if i stopped loving their new music. i might have willed myself into loving it, but it's all for the best i think. they make real good use of shinier production and they've rounded out a lot of the awkward corners in their songs.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the new album. (Much better than a lot of other hype-bands sophomore albums too which always disappoint me.)
― Mordy, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Much more interesting, though, is how much Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and Santigold mastermind Santi White have in common—their shared fascination, for example, with the rhythms of the African diaspora. Their love for spiky melodies. Even their upbringing.
Um, it's interesting in 2010 that two rich city kids both have an interest in black music?
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, I mean, "the African diaspora" by definition does not include AFRICA
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, that article, I'm really just not going to keep going here. I mean it's fucking Paste.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The new album is ridiculously good IMO. "Cousins" is actually one of the weaker tracks maybe.
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 January 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I have to listen to it some more(have heard the myspace stream twice), but I just find it pleasant in a background kind of way. Its tasteful but the hooks and melodies and lyrics and instrumental feel don't grab me (yet ?).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link