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Ezra Koenig and company give you their view of their new album. By James Montgomery Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig Photo: MTV News Last summer, when MTV News first visited Vampire Weekend in the studio where they were toiling away on their new album, they kept using one phrase to describe the songs they had written: “extremes of vibe.” At the time, we sort of chalked it up to too much time spent in a dark space — the studio, dubbed “Tree Fort,” is located in a cramped storage facility near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — but with each passing month, and with each new song they revealed (the plinky “Horchata,” the placid “White Sky,” the punky “Cousins”) we slowly began to understand what they meant. Their album (which they eventually dubbed Contra ), packed an awful lot into just 30-odd minutes: careening guitars, chipper keys, downright dubby low-end, plus handclaps, bells, whistles and even an Auto-Tuned vocal or two

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Vampire Weekend Take You Through Contra Track By Track