Discovery - LP

If Soul music is secularized, sexualized gospel, Discovery is an attempt to see if Soul music can
survive being plasticized, roboticized, quantized, chopped, and finally, screwed.

· Discovery is the recording project of Rostam
Batmanglij and Wes Miles, friends who began
recording together in the summer of 2005. One year later
they had committed themselves to their respective
bands, Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, but
nonetheless continued to record together when they both
found themselves in the same city.
· The project is many things: it’s partly an attempt to
realize Wes’s concept of a band where everyone plays
synthesizers, and of Rostam’s concept for an album
where handclaps keep the backbeat instead of snare
drums. It’s an embrace and also a commentary on
the pop music of the past decade, of booming 808
bass and jittery sixteenth note high-hats;
elements of European electronic dance music
skittering in double time over steady R&B.
· The album features Rostam and Wes each singing half
the songs, with guest vocals from Vampire Weekend’s
Ezra Koenig (on ‘Carby’) and Dirty Projectors’ Angel
Deradoorian (‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’).

Orange Shirt * Osaka Loop Line * Can You Discover? *
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft Angel Deradoorian) * So Insane *
Swing Tree * Carby (ft Ezra Koenig) * I Want You Back *
It’s Not My Fault (It’s My Fault) * Slang Tang

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