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Vampire Weekend To Release New Material This Year

by Ciaran Thompson

Vampire Weekend are currently touring down under in support of their latest album Contra, however according to an interview with the BBC, the band expects to release new material before the year is out. “There’s preliminary conversations and definitely we started talking about the next album as soon as we finished this one,” frontman Ezra Koenig said. “Physically a lot of our energy and our time is going to be taken up by touring but little by little we’ll start to do stuff. We’ll still be releasing music in other ways, we have a few little things we’ve worked on that’ll come out this year.”

Contra, their sophomore effort has sold tremendously well since its release in January as it reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “Selling records is never really part of our plan, it can’t be your objective, playing shows and having people care about your music has to be your objective, to have people psyched to buy your record the week it comes out – it’s amazing.”

The band have dates set up to play several Spring/Summer festivals including Sasquatch, Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Oxegen, RockNess and T In The Park.