@ Contra - Vampire Weekend
I VW si candidano ad essere i nuovi Ramones grazie ad una formula riconoscibilissima, alla indubbia freschezza compositiva e al rumore assordante dell'hype che ricorda molto il lavoro fatto ai fianchi degli Strokes ai tempi ("hanno studiato" è la frase che li accompagna spesso). Il suono afrocentrico che caratterizza la band non ha ovviamente oramai nulla di esotico, anche grazie ai suoi famosi progenitori illustri, e i suoi elementi essenziali sono sempre il battito, la caledoscopica melodia, la modulazione del cantato. Una rigorosa estetica indie fa il resto, arrangiando in maniera fluida e aggiungendo qua e la timida elettronica, archi e vocoder. La tematica sviscerata è quella della relazione sentimentale che frana o che non va per il verso giusto, insomma quando si sta per recidere ma non ci si riesce e ci si fa del male a vicenda ("Cuz I’m gonna cut it where I can " o "You know There’s nowhere else to go"), messaggio reso esplicito dal pezzo finale I think you r a contra. Il resto sono solo indizi per depistare (spinelli con figli di diplomatici, rime assurde ed infantili). Contra è insomma un disco malincolico,un disco triste nel suo contenuto ma dalla forma godibilissima.
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Hi Disheria,
On behalf of XL Recordings and Vampire Weekend, we would kindly ask you not to post copies of "Contra" on your site (or any non-preview tracks from Vampire Weekend's new album - street date 11th Jan UK & 12th Jan US).
We do appreciate that you are fans of / are promoting Vampire Weekend, but the label and artist would greatly appreciate your co-operation in removing your links to the pirate files in question.
Thank you for respecting the artist's and label’s wishes and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then full length versions of "Horchata" and "White Sky" are available for fans and bloggers to link to / post / host etc at www.vampireweekend.com . Additionally, all three tracks from the Vampire Weekend Meets Toy Selectah bonus CD "Contra Megamelt" ("Cousinz", "Contramelt A" and "Contramelt B") have now also been designated as fan previews for sharing ahead of release … .. for further details of the new album, on-line promotions, videos and 2010 shows, check-out the official site, as well as the band’s Myspace at www.myspace.com/vampireweekend and XL’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/XLRecordings ... .. and keep an eye on these official sources for details of further news, preview material and on-line promotions.
As a special, New Year’s gesture to fans and bloggers, an exclusive preview stream of the full album is now also available at the band’s MySpace page ... .. this is for hyper-linking ONLY and for streaming by fans directly off the band’s MySpace , so please reciprocate this goodwill gesture by NOT ripping or embedding these files ... .. similarly, a streaming widget is now also available off the band’s web-site for fans and bloggers to embed / enjoy pre-release but – again – please only use the official widget and don’t offer or embed ripped / pirated files.
Thanks Again & Best for 2010,
WEB SHERIFF
please give my regards to my friends VW tell em we'll see in NY next year as usual.
ElRocco