Courtesy: Pitchfork

Slowly but surely, Vampire Weekend’s hotly anticipated sophomore album Contra is coming together. The LP isn’t due until January 12 (via XL), but we’ve already heard “Horchata”, the busy and uptight first single and album opener, and we’ve linked to footage of the band playing album tracks “White Sky” and forthcoming single “Cousins”.

This past weekend, the band played two surprise shows in Los Angeles, bringing with them lots of new songs. Stereogum posted a video of the track “California English”. And we searched around YouTube for footage of more Contra tunes, which can be seen below:

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