When Contra came out 10 years ago this weekend, they were no longer the ascendant indie It kids. It would have been pretty easy for Vampire Weekend to fall on their face. It contains some of the band’s most insistently brilliant bits of genius. Just kidding.) Its perfectly tight 10 songs are pretty hard to fuck with. But Vampire Weekend are one of the most consistently excellent bands of the last decade and change, and it’s pretty easy to understand how any of their albums could conceivably be somebody’s favorite. It’s not as refined and austere as Modern Vampires Of The City, it doesn’t have the new band energy of their 2008 debut.
The third one had more of the trappings of success, the first one was the first one…”Ĭontra can indeed be easy to overlook. And it made me happy because I don’t think that’s the consensus.
“Like, what, am I a moron? He said it like it was so obviously our best album. “He said it with such confidence,” he recalled. Koenig told me this story last year when I interviewed him for our Vampire Weekend cover story. “Well, you know, maybe I’m confused but I’ve made three albums and I like them all.” A couple years ago, a kid stopped Ezra Koenig in the street and said, “Oh, you’re the dude who made that album.”
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