Cloudspeakers

Call it prep school-Africana or vaguely precious Soweto-pop,the music the boys of Vampire Weekend make have been getting under listeners'pelts since their start. The sophomore Contra won't bug fans so much less than their debut even though it's wiser, brawnier,spright-lier - and in the case of "California English" - slicker with a bigdose of Auto-Tune wrapped around Ezra Koenig's chipper voice.... Read more