I’ve avoided highlighting any songs off of Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album Contra the past few months for a rather silly reason.

I do a ‘top ten songs of the year’ countdown at the end of the year and I don’t want to burn one of these great tracks now and be unable to feature it in December.

Because I know without a doubt that something from this album will be on my list of favorite 2010 songs. It’s a wonderful piece of work.

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