I never quite wondered what would happen if you were to mix "Vampire Weekend" with "Ra Ra Riot". I should've. Once again, this certainly isn't "news" but this little brainchild of Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles is some of the best electro pop produced this side of the universe. They produced an album titled the same as their project, "Discovery" which was released just before summer. This album is a discovery of an Electro pop universe not yet traversed with soundmixing as dubiously clever as the mindtrap that is sudoku (I really can't figure that shit out!) and vocals as unfitting as mustard on candycorn yet still as wellfitting as chocolate syrup on vanilla ice cream. Of course there still is that slight chance that you're allergic to the small residue of peanut in the chocolate syrup.
Discovery to me, is a very interesting project and I'm eagerly awaiting whatever comes next, although six months of listening to their first album certainly hasn't put me off from looping it on my iPod some more. An auto tuned Ezra Koenig sets the mood for Carby, a great track out of an album where I acctually love every single song, I don't think that's ever happened for me since Cross was released two years ago. The cover of the Jackson 5 track I Want You back is probably my favourite track out of this fantastic musical achievement, it remains epic and ferocious despite it's slow tempo. I could realistically name every track on this record as my favorite though, I just love it that much.
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