Contra the Non 8bit Album Review

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A SELECT START is the code for 30 lives for 2 players in Konami’s Contra for the NES that came out in the 1980’s. Contra by Vampire Weekend is an album that came out today that features a Polaroid of a chick from 1983 as the cover art.

Vampire Weekend is playing a sold our show tonight at the Henry Fonda in Los Angeles to support their newest album, Contra. I am bummed I am not going to the show because the new album rocks. I was a closet fan of their first album, it took a while for their sound to grow on me, but they def hit a home run on their follow up.

The reason I like this band is because the music is fun, period. They have no problem creating happy, carefree melodies with upbeat lyrics which gives us the listener a “pick me up” from all the other garbage that is out there. Cousins and Horchata have all ready received radio commercial success but that can be said for almost every song on the new album its that good. Its rare that there is a band that you can listen to with your mom in the car that you both will genuinely like. Some of my favorite tracks off Contra are California English, Give Up the Gun and Holiday. They use a wide variety of sounds and instruments to create their signature sound,  they even have fun with autotune. On the track Diplomat’s Son you can hear a sample taken from M.I.A., STRONG!

This album makes me feel like its x-mass, and I am a Muslim. Go out and buy the album, and if you have time try to beat Contra while listening to Contra.

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