Better get your new Polo shirt and top-siders, there’s a new Vampire Weekend Album on the horizon. My question is if the album title is from the old Nintendo game or if it’s Spanish for “against”.

Vampire Weekend-Exist Music (For a Film) (Radiohead Cover) [mp3]

From Vampire Weekend:

New Album Announcement!

Greetings from Vampire Weekend. Today we can announce that our second album, Contra, will be out January 12th, 2010 on XL Recordings. We’ll have more exciting news and media in the coming weeks. For now, check out the album cover and tracklist below.

1. Horchata
2. White Sky
3. Holiday
4. California English
5. Taxi Cab
6. Run
7. Cousins
8. Giving Up The Gun
9. Diplomat’s Son
10. I Think Ur A Contra