Blog: Stereogum

You guys made some very educated guesses about what Vampire Weekend's been counting down to all day. Some of them were even right! At the strike of zero, ithinkuracontra.com swiftly redirected to vampireweekend.com ( again ), where the band is offering up this free download of Contra 's opening track, "Horchata." In the band's Progress Report , Rostam told Jessica it was the track he was most pleased with, and one that abandoned guitars entirely in favor of kalimba, marimba, and a Yamaha VSS-30 he got on eBay. He explained: [...]

• Vampire Weekend - Horchata