Discovery - LP

there is no thread for this album yet?

just bought at Amoeba Hollywood.

check the vampire weekend thread

Is this the one that has the dude from Vampire Weekend on it?

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quite terrible what ive heard and i really like VW

oh so i have missed it.

quite terrible what ive heard and i really like VW

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"Discovery's debut album, LP, initially appears to be a masterpiece. Its surges, snaps and blips press all my juicy summer buttons, recalling Len, Miracle Fortress and (inevitably) Daft Punk's Discovery. But this enchanted team-up between Vampire Weekend's secret genius Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles is utterly undone by Miles's vocals. Many songs wither under repeated listens, or in some cases even under first listens - because while Miles at different times recalls everyone from Harry Nilsson to Antony to Kevin Barnes to Ben Gibbard, he always sounds like a twerp. A song like "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is an R&B pop marvel - that loses every bit of sizzle in its anemic verses. I'm certain this is an issue of choice, not of talent, but it's a fatal misstep. Irony does not trump sincerity, here. (See: R. Kelly.) Discovery's delicious, AutoTune-strewn cover of the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" becomes nearly unlistenable as MJ's liberated sing is replaced with Miles's nerd croon. I become physically sad when I imagine what these jubilant chemical productions could be, with someone else's voice on top - imagine Jay-Z, Bjork, Sam Cooke, Jay Reatard surfing these songs' lead edges, all strut and bling. (And as much as I like Ezra Koenig within the context of Vampire Weekend, he is not the answer.)"

what about all the hooks? imo the album goes a long way on sweet-ass melodies. i don't agree about the verses of "i wanna be your boyfriend," sure it's eclipsed by the brilliant chorus but that happens in tonnes of great songs. in my ears miles' twerpiness translates to ok maybe not sincerity, but nice-guy-seeming-ness at least, rather than irony. if a sturdier singer were handling these songs, i think they would lose alot of what makes them so charming.

Who cares about hooks if the singer can't sing them? I've even recanted on the one with the Koenig vocal: after initially lapping it up, now I think it's one of the most cloying things I've heard all year.

quite terrible what ive heard and i really like VW

Really liked it and I'm not a fan of VW at all.

Give it a week. You'll hate it too, regardless of your views on Vampire Weekend.

surprised at the reaction, liked this even better the second time.

and it's only 30 minutes.

half awesome half crap

half decent half meh

diggin' it. also slightly irritated by it.

so now i understand why some of you get irritated by this record, i still like quite a bit of it...

but now i think i'm going to sell my copy.

o baby baby baby babe.

This is a confusing record. Love the production, not mad on the vocal. Pretty sure the cover of I Want You Back is classic though. Didn't realise it had been out this long though.

I keep mixing this band up with Disclosure. I think it's because I'm in litigation.