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Vampire Weekend - Contra flac album
  • Performer Vampire Weekend
  • Title Contra
  • Date of release 2010
  • Country Europe
  • Style Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
  • Other formats AC3 VOC DXD VOX MP3 MOD MP1
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1448 mb
  • Size FLAC 1258 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 749

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 ies 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.

Contra is still a Vampire Weekend album and it's certainly one that past fans will presently like. Vampire Weekend's second album, Contra, finds the New York-based band pushing its eclectic, intellectual indie rock further using a mash-up of musical genres, clever wordplay and emotional heft. 80. Contra is the sound of a band driving themselves to very satisfying extremes. New York prepsters stick to their Paul Simon-goes-indie formula on successful second album.

1. Horchata 2. White Sky 3. Holiday 4. California English 5. Taxi Cab 6. Run 7. Cousins 8. Giving Up The Gun 9. Diplomat's Son 10.

When Vampire Weekend released the single Harmony Hall in January, some publications were quick to join the dots between their return and fashion’s supposed volte-face to prep style. Vampire Weekend are back and it’s good news for everyone, reads Esquire. Firstly, it heralds the return of their warbling Ivy League pop, something the world has clearly been staggering on without for way too long now. Of course, Vampire Weekend hasn’t been making that kind of music or dressing that way for a long time

It's a sweatless calypso, buttoned-up and breezy. Considering the ferocious objections to Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut, "Horchata", and the rest of Contra, is brave music. It's like they've spent the past two years building a bionic version of the band- not only brighter and tighter, but weirder.

Like Contra, the album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 - making Vampire Weekend the first rock band on an independent label to enter the charts at number one with two consecutive albums - and it also won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2014. Early in 2016, Batmanglij announced he had left Vampire Weekend but would continue to play with them in the future. That year, the band began work on their fourth album with collaborators including Rechtshaid, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Danielle Haim, and Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth

Lord knows they have their detractors, but whatever you might think of them, the simple fact is Vampire Weekend are now one of the most unique bands on the. Horchata. The band's second album, Contra, was released in 2010, becoming Vampire Weekend's first album to debut at the Number One spot on the Billboard 200, and. The General Society Library was the largest free circulating library prior to the founding of the public library system, and is now the second oldest library in the.

Design – Asher Sarlin, Rostam Batmanglij. Engineer – Fernando Lodeiro.

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Tracklist

A1 Horchata 3:27
A2 White Sky 2:59
A3 Holiday 2:18
A4 California English 2:30
A5 Taxi Cab 3:56
A6 Run 3:53
B1 Cousins 2:25
B2 Giving Up The Gun 4:46
B3 Diplomat's Son 6:01
B4 I Think Ur A Contra 4:26

Companies, etc.

  • Pressed By – United Record Pressing
  • Lacquer Cut At – Nashville Record Productions

Credits

  • Mastered By [Vinyl Runout] – Wes Garland

Notes

High quality 180 gram vinyl (as stated on sticker affixed to shrink wrap)

Including poster with cover image and lyrics.

Deadwax includes a 'U' in a circle signifying pressed at United Record Pressing.

WG/NRP in the deadwax signifies vinyl mastered by Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 634904042912
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A): L-18659M-A-RE-1 XLLP-429 WG/NRP Ⓤ
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B): L-18659M-B-RE-1 XLLP-429 Ⓤ

Other 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


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Vivaral
Can someone tell me the matrix numbers on their copy of this one? Mine are:Side A: B989654-01 A2 MN(or X or R) VIS(or 5) XLLP429 VTSide B: B989654-01 B2 HL XLLP 429