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After hearing a few live recordings of Vampire Weekend’s “Cousins” and watching it performed in a movie theater in Long Beach earlier this month, I quickly deemed it a new favorite from the band’s upcoming Contra. The video is vaguely reminiscent of the “A-Punk” clip (though I can’t remember any 10 foot penises drawn with pink chalk in that one), and sort of makes you realize how many corresponding qualities the two tracks possess.

Anyway, this song is so good, it’s just silly.

Many in the music blogosphere continue to actively “hate” Vampire Weekend for being “totally over-hyped” or “ranking higher than Pulp on Pitchfork’s Best [something or other] list,” but, considering the fact that the band has yet to release a song that isn’t pure aesthetic perfection, you have to question the judgment of those dummies. We’ve heard nearly all of the sophomore, and it’s just as good as 2008′s Album of the Year. Sorry folks, the band is that good.

Sometimes, that can happen.