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Discovery

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Label: Xl

Genre: Rock / Pop

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<p>If Soul music is secularized, sexualized gospel, Discovery is an attempt to see if Soul music can<br />survive being plasticized, roboticized, quantized, chopped, and finally, screwed.<br /><br />· Discovery is the recording project of Rostam<br />Batmanglij and Wes Miles, friends who began<br />recording together in the summer of 2005. One year later<br />they had committed themselves to their respective<br />bands, Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, but<br />nonetheless continued to record together when they both<br />found themselves in the same city.<br />· The project is many things: it’s partly an attempt to<br />realize Wes’s concept of a band where everyone plays<br />synthesizers, and of Rostam’s concept for an album<br />where handclaps keep the backbeat instead of snare<br />drums. It’s an embrace and also a commentary on<br />the pop music of the past decade, of booming 808<br />bass and jittery sixteenth note high-hats;<br />elements of European electronic dance music<br />skittering in double time over steady R&B.<br />· The album features Rostam and Wes each singing half<br />the songs, with guest vocals from Vampire Weekend’s<br />Ezra Koenig (on ‘Carby’) and Dirty Projectors’ Angel<br />Deradoorian (‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’).<br /><br />Orange Shirt * Osaka Loop Line * Can You Discover? *<br />I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft Angel Deradoorian) * So Insane *<br />Swing Tree * Carby (ft Ezra Koenig) * I Want You Back *<br />It’s Not My Fault (It’s My Fault) * Slang Tang</p>