Vampire Weekend "Contra" 2025-05-23 Reggae figurehead Bob Marley--a songwriter

Reggae figurehead Bob Marley--a songwriter

with spacious musical landscapes making room for devastating lyrics that return to themes of an unravelling marriage and big endings

rock and jazz and focus on themes like coming-of-age

THE CULT is fronted by Ian Astbury on vocals and Billy Duffy on guitar

Friday Night Lights finds him in a more expansive mode

Vampire Weekend "Contra" 2025-05-23 Reggae figurehead Bob Marley--a songwriterSome bands stay in a holding pattern their whole careers. others jerk the steering wheel hard and fly off the road. on their second album, vampire weekend do neither. or maybe they do both. "i think we sound more like vampire weekend than we did on the first record," says drummer christopher tomson. 'contra' pulls off a series of impressive feats: it's bustling with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar; it's heavily layered but taut and