Pitchfork、NME、Spin力挺纽约新人王第二张野心大作 青春无敌后庞克热血与放克、雷鬼、Ska元素完美结盟 大胆取样电气女伶M.I.A.名曲〈Hussel〉 第二张专辑《Contra》集结了Vampire Weekend许多音乐上的初体验：六分钟的〈Diplomat's Son〉是他们谱过最长的歌，还取样饶舌女歌手M.I.A.的口白；主唱Ezra Koenig也于〈California English〉首度替歌声添加Auto-Tune效果；〈Cousins〉则是初次录制于墨西哥的作品，沾染了当地热力，贝斯线宛如一名过动儿在街上裸奔。〈Giving Up The Gun〉更是乐团成军来最适合舞池的一曲。 以轻柔的手段融合放克、雷鬼与Ska，本质仍是层理紧密、洋溢着敏捷运动感的三分钟摇滚劲歌。青春可以无敌，也可以无用，然听见Ezra Koenig在〈White Sky〉里毫不扭捏地飙高假音纵情「啊呜」，Vampire Weekend肯定还会无敌好一阵子。

Ride's first album in over twenty years, Weather Diaries, will be released June 16th via Wichita Recordings. The album was produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, and is packed with all the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early 90s. Trembling distortion, beautiful harmonies, pounding rhythms, shimmering soundscapes and great songwriting all combine to make an album thats ambitious in scope, timeless and thoroughly addictive. The album will be released through Wichita Recordings and sees the band reunited with label co-founders Mark Bowen and Dick Green, who worked with Ride during the bands early years on Creation Records. It also brings the band back together with mixer Alan Moulder (Arctic Monkeys, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers) who mixed their seminal 1990 album Nowhere and produced its follow up Going Blank Again.