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Generally favorable reviews- based on 598 Ratings
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Positive: 404 out of 598
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Mixed: 82 out of 598
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Negative: 112 out of 598
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May 7, 2013I'm only giving it a 5/10 because I only liked half the songs on this album. My pick tracks (and the only ones I enjoyed): 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11. Diplomat's Son being my favorite, and Giving up the gun also. Why did they choose that awful song as a first single?
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Apr 29, 2013
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Oct 2, 2010
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RayW.Jan 18, 2010Don't they sound a bit gay though? Just saying i think Motley Crue deserve another listen.
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AliBJan 17, 2010when did this band become so bad that they don't know what their best material is and they stick it as bonus tracks here and there? also what the f happened to the strings and Upper West Side Soweto? now it's just a bad appropriation of Soweto.
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MattKJan 17, 2010Boring and uninteresting, Vampire Weekend make a safe sounding album that whitewashes their worldly influences.
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SimonOJan 17, 2010Lyrics do not flow with many of the songs, seem oddly out of place
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RicO.Jan 16, 2010In a few years from now, no one will remember Vampire Weekend. They're a trend that won't last.
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JustinPJan 16, 2010Does anyone else find this music not very exciting?
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RupertMJan 15, 2010If you want the real VW, listen to Contramelt A and B on the bonus disc. The main release is MOR pop crap. Enjoy the Billboard number 1 Batmanglij with your production-lite techniques.
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MattM.Jan 14, 2010Daddy when you call me you can call me Al.
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ElijihW.Jan 14, 2010Not bad... Not good. Just regular.
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RaphSJan 14, 2010Very very disappointing. When did Ezra turn into Weird Al?? Paul Simon's Graceland is a masterpiece which should and must never be compared to this junk. Batmanglij should focus more on keyboards and less on making VW another Discovery, i.e. useless and rubbish.
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KurtCJan 12, 2010
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Awards & Rankings
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Contra establishes that his band has chosen another path, celebrating the world's contradictions, contraindications, and contradistinctions with a new pop sound made up of old pop sounds that aren't the same old pop sounds.
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Contra is a solidly entertaining, well-constructed album, and if people take to it, the tendency to mock the band will, I think, fade, simply because it doesn't have obviously unfashionable moments to feel uneasy about.
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If Vampire Weekend was Rushmore, Contra is their Royal Tenenbaums: brainy, confident and generally awesome.