I love Vampire Weekend, but I sorta hate autotune. So what am I to do? Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles and Vampire Weekend keyboardist/producer extraordinaire Rostam Batmanglij have teamed up to put out an album under the name Discovery. This collaboration is kinda like the hot young secretary (always blonde) the married man goes off with. So different from his homely pleasant wife (always brunette), and yet isn't this what makes the affair appealing to begin with? Sure, you can still hear some African inspired Vampire Weekend beats in tracks like Can You Discover? And of course there is the distinctive and always welcomed guest vocals of Ezra Koening on Carby (which incidentally, is one of my least favourite tracks despite being the one that drew me in). But overall, Discovery is totally not what you would expect when considering the bands these boys came from. I can just picture them all giggly sneaking around behind their band mates backs making music...shock horror...without guitars!! But seriously, this stuff is synth heavy, with cute little boy vocals (when their not auto-killed), major 80's throwbacks with words like "discotheque" and generally just a whole heap of kitch. The weirdest bit? The eighth track is a grimy futuristic cover of Jackson Five I Want You Back. Eerie.
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Just for fun here are some clips from the respective homely pleasant wives these guys came from:
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