Blog: The Smoking Section

A couple of issues ago, Rolling Stone called Vampire Weekend's latest album Contra a project that harkens back to the classic Paul Simon work Graceland . Since Graceland stands as one of those albums that defined my childhood, I had to give Contra a try. Maybe the review already planted a seed in my head, but Simons's fingerprints are all over the album. West African drum patters are strewn across the album while lines delivered in "White Sky" sound like they were read from one [...]