Vampire Weekend "Contra" 2024-04-26 ‘Gangsters’

‘Gangsters’

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Vampire Weekend "Contra" 2024-04-26 ‘Gangsters’Some bands stay in a holding pattern their whole careers. others jerk the steering wheel hard and fly off the road. on their second album, vampire weekend do neither. or maybe they do both. "i think we sound more like vampire weekend than we did on the first record," says drummer christopher tomson. 'contra' pulls off a series of impressive feats: it's bustling with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar; it's heavily layered but taut and