I love Vampire Weekend.  I've loved them since the moment I heard "Oxford Comma". I love the staccato weird way they sing and I love their lyrics and I especially love the tight little guitar riffs that appear out of nowhere, especially on cousins, which is, yes, my favorite song on the album but there are no clunkers on this record. It's just one of those records where you can put it on and never wrinkle up your nose once. It's all cool. I cracked the cellophane on this one and I was happy with all the swag you get with this record. You get a giant poster of that girl on the cover who looks like one of those sorority girls who goes missing on Spring Break in the Caribbean and foul play is suspected and some foreigner is under suspicion because she can't possibly have gone missing because she went swimming naked, drunk out of her mind.

You also get a download code so you can download the whole album and you ALSO get a CD with Contramelt #1 and #2 and a remix of Cousins. Cool, right?

My second favorite song is "Diplomat's Son". It's sort of mixed with an eighties sound combined with a reggae-Carib-Techno-ish beat and great lyrics.

You have to own this record.

Seriously.