Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

Recently released is the new album of one of the more polarizing bands in indie music, Vampire Weekend's Contra . Ambivalence runs thick with this band and regrettably that is unlikely to change with this album. I've written of Vampire Weekend previously after attending a show in Manhattan's Upper Westside late in 2008 . At the time I referred to the band as a "guilty indulgence." Breezy and syrupy in a way that turns me off when I'm trying to "appear" hip or radically indie and breezy and syrupy at times when I'm searching for exactly that. [...]