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Vampire Weekend have told BBC 6 Music they have new music planned for release before the end of the year.

Frontman Ezra said although nothing solid has started on the follow up to their sophomore record Contra, we are not going to have to wait long for new material:

"There's preliminary conversations and definitely we started talking about the next album as soon as we finished this one.

"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," he teased.

"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."

Ezra Koenig

The New York band are currently on tour with Beach House in the States in support of Contra.

The album topped the Bilboard chart in the US and was number 3 here in the UK.

Ezra says the record's success is still surprising to them:

"I'm amazed that we even chart anyway frankly a bunch of knuckleheads like us.

"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."

However, the singer admitted they were all worried about the second record would do:

"No matter how confident you are it's a fear every band has when you are successful with your first album, you have got all sorts of psycho people who are waiting for you to mess up, I feel like we are out of the woods now."

Vampire Weekend return to the UK in June to play the Isle of Wight festival before slots at Glastonbury and Latitude amongst many others.

They have also been announced to open this summer's Eden Sessions at The Eden Project in Cornwall on June 24.

Tickets go on sale for that on April 27.