Discovery album out July 10, stream it now on nme

The Discovery album is out in just over a week. We blogged a couple of tracks a month ago but you can now listen to the whole thing over at NME.

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 snares 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.

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. The album features Rostam and Wes each singing half the songs and guest vocals from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig (on ‘Carby’) and Dirty Projectors’ Angel Deradoorian (‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’)

The tracklist for ‘LP’ is:


You can read an interview they did with Pitchfork here.

Discovery is out July 10 through XL/ Remote Control.

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