Customer Reviews
feel good music - By: ljg, 02 Jul 2010 
this album is a really great feel good album, the music isnt the most thought about but really lifts your spirits, i have listened to this over & over again, great!
Great album, one that really grows on you :) - By: Iain Hudson, 30 Jun 2010 
I've loved this band since I first heard Blake's Got A New Face on the iTunes song of the week however when I first heard this I thought that it wasn't anywhere near as good as the first album, but it alowly grew & grew on me & now I like it even more than I like the first!
Fantastic and different - By: Mr. Anthony Butler, 26 Jun 2010 Absolutely love this second album, keeping their unique style but experimenting with different sounds & rhythms it's a great album. Possibly not as initially catchy as the first but easily as good if not better than the first once you get into it.
A welcome relief from vuvuzelas - By: E. Goodman, 13 Jun 2010 Vampire Weekend's 'Contra' is what you'd get if you threw Jimmy Buffet,MGMT, Paul Simon & Jason Mraz into a recording studio, gave them a bontempi keyboard, a Major Morgan & a couple of bongos & cowbells & asked them to write an album inspired by The Cure & traditional African Music.
I like all of those things seperatly, & after two listens, I like the sum of their parts too.
This is fresh, original, bizarre but very cheery stuff & it's hard not to like it. My stand out track is Giving up the Gun - many of the other songs sound a bit samey but you are almost glad of it.
Vampire Weekend should have done the theme to this year's World Cup - it would have been fab!
Superb - By: D. S. Hutchison, 14 Apr 2010 This is a superb album, vaguely reminiscent of Paul Simon's Graceland. Tremendous rhythms, creative melodies & allround good stuff. Well worth a go!
