Discovery's First LP Surfaces

Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles have been in collaboration for about a year now to produce this self-titled LP. It is scheduled for release on July 7, 2009 on XL Recordings. With their separate bands, these two are pretty amazing; combined, they're sure to please (EDIT: I can totally see a few of these tracks making it onto a Mark Rowan mixtape in the near future). This album is pretty catchy, but then again, I consider who put this together and am not surprised.

Initial reactions to Discovery so far are very positive. The remakes of both "Can You Tell" by Ra Ra Riot (now "Can You Discover?") and "I Want You Back" by Jackson 5 are impressive to say the least. These tracks are ethereal and bring in pieces of other genres; for example, the former sounds like this could easily drop into a reggae tune and the latter sounds like it was reproduced by Crystal Castles with its video game quality.

I think it's fair to say that there's a larger VW influence in this LP. "Swing Tree" and "Slang Tang" follow some of the patterns set by the band -their trademark bridges and such could have easily fit into the VW record, though with a lot more synth. I think their kwassa kwassa is showing.

1. Orange Shirt
2. Osaka Loop Line
3. Can You Discover?
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend [ft. Angel Deradoorian]
5. So Insane
6. Swing Tree
7. Carby [ft. Ezra Koenig]
8. I Want You Back
9. It's Not My Fault (It's My Fault)
10. Slang Tang

... Will it live up to your expectations?

P.S. I also totally agree with this visual representation of feelings as the LP progresses.