Release Notes:

Fans of bookish, polo-shirt'd, sea-breezed Ivy League indie-pop, get
ready to get your party on. Or, um, something like that. It's time to
discover Discovery. That's the side project of Vampire Weekend's
keyboardist/arranger/producer type, Rostam Batmanglij, and Ra Ra Riot
frontman Wes Miles. Where their main bands 'whose respective debut
discs, Vampire Weekend and The Rhumb Line, were two of 2008's best
albums' play preppy, jangling, twee tunes, Discovery do something
distinctly different.

Taking inspiration from the chromed-out gleam of modern R&B production,
Batmanglij takes charge of sinuous keyboards, boinging beats, and
massive synth crashes; approximating disposable pop fodder with an
expert ear. Miles ¿who normally spends his lyrical time making
bibliophilic connections to e.e. cummings and Virginia Woolf¿ sings
simple refrains in a near-falsetto that's pitched even higher by the
obligatory autotune. It's brightly-colored, saturated-sounding,
fluttery electro fluff that's stylistic lightyears away from Upper West
Side Soweto.