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Discovery - LP

Review by Andrzej Lukowski

Nature may abhor a vacuum, but she tends to take an equally dim view of 14-eyed, buck-toothed hell-beasts. Thusly she rather wisel»

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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').
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