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
Well, "Cousins" seems to stick out (and depending on your taste for that guitar style, in a good or bad way. I say good).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
is cousins about these dudes
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/04/17/Perfect-Strangers-web.jpg
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
a rich city kid who explores the cultural wealth/folk wisdom of the meposian diaspora
I love "Run" a lot atm.
― Mordy, Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
From experience, the new album is best appreciated on a good sounding system and not, if you can help it, as a stream or via computer speakers. Made all the difference to me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
shit sounds like that embarrassing "discovery" lp
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
No way, that really was embarrassing. At least they write real songs in the context of VW.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the Discovery album almost dissuaded me from listening to this in the first place.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm unapologetically in love with this album. Even better than the first, I think.
― Mordy, Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Amazon MP3 has the record for $3.99. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YP45EQ
Time to go listen to this thing!
― kshighway v3.0 (ksmokehighway), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i cosign this so hard. a few missteps i think ("california english" soudns like a bad max tundra song, the m.i.a. sample is so unnecessary and detracts a lot from the otherwise great "diplomat's son") but overall i mean damn.
― balearific, Monday, 11 January 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I'm listening to "Diplomat's Son," and the first thing I thought was, "This sounds like MIA." No shit.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Record's solid. I loved "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" off of the s/t, and "I Think Ur A Contra," on first listen, is also beautiful, albeit more subdued.
Also just listened to the cover of Radiohead's "Exit Music" that they did for Stereogum. Let's pretend that doesn't exist.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, between the P4K review of Contra and his Stylus piece, Mike Powell is KILLING IT. Approaching nabisco in terms of constant OTMness.
― Alex in Montreal, Monday, 11 January 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't read it yet, but here's the review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13807-contra/
Does Powell writes for any publications besides P4k?
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 11 January 2010 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
*write
Excellent review.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link
this is an interesting album. cousins is the only thing that sounds like old VW really. giving up the gun is pretty 80s but still VW. i could see this track becoming pretty big. its quite anthemic. the synths and some of the production could maybe be seen as a concession to what everyone else is doing at the mo, but they really personalise it. prob gonna be one of the best albums this year.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
more exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bearmore exciting than the relentlessly sophisticated Grizzly Bear
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
sophisticated meaning dreary.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Think Ur A Contra,"
If this is the actual song title I will hunt these people down.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Strap on your weaponry Ned, its for real.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a beautiful song, too.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
They will learn the truth of the dictum "To create beauty is to suffer pain" (which, if not a real dictum, has now been conveniently invented by me).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
more trainspotting. 'Taxi Cab' =~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NBqzWEOXkA
which isn't a bad thing at all
― FahrvergnĂĽgent (herb albert), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah came here to say that review is excellent
― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the p4k 1
― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that Radiohead sample at the start of Giving Up The Gun? The twinkly analogue computer sounds from the end of Let Down...
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 11 January 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
analog computer is an oxymoron FYI
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 January 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Not if it's not a real computer.
(Okay, leave me alone, it's late...)
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 11 January 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/mike-powell
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 11 January 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks jaymc!
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://yvynyl.tumblr.com/post/319971293/when-hating-an-album-is-vogue-whats-a-critic-to-do
People like that don't exist outside of Tumblr, right?
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"well, selling out to starbucks is just the old selling out to itunes"