Releases
Calendar
July 2009
June 2009
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Stop The World
The Big Pink
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Travels With Myself And Another
Future of the Left
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Sleep On Fire
Holly Miranda
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Man Of Aran
British Sea Power
May 2009
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Further Complications
Jarvis Cocker
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'Em Are I
Jeffrey Lewis
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I Feel Cream
Peaches
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Primary Colours
The Horrors
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Actor
St. Vincent
April 2009
LP by Discovery
Released: Jul 07 2009
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 Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors).
Customer Reviews
Excellent "debut" - 
This album, with just the 5 songs that are available right now, shows off the originality and style of Rostam Bastmanglij's excellent composing style. You can imagine the synthesizers being played by a guitar or violin and is just like Vampire Weekend. Very good debut, hope they DO decide to play it live.
Diego Cid, 2009-06-10