#rostam batmanglij

[dykehayleywilliams]

#web weaving #less of a web weave more 1 am musings on the inherent comfort of the backseat of a vehicle #the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us #sufjan stevens #lucy dacus #julien baker #y tu mamá también #rostam batmanglij #from the back of a cab

[roughtradeversion]

12-04-2010

#vampire weekend #ezra koenig #rostam batmanglij #lycheejelly1.txt

[innspectrespacetime]

And I lay inside a field

Beneath a cherry tree

And listen to the grass

And horses as they pass

#spring playlist #track 1 #rostam batmanglij #Spotify

[contrasako]

Vampire Weekend

Modern Vampires of the City 10th Anniversary

#vampire weekend #ezra koenig #modern vampires of the city #chris baio #chris tomson #rostam batmanglij #fan art

[unbornwhiskeyy]

there are many things about this world that make me feel like i tripped through a cosmic door and landed in the wrong dimension but one really amazing thing about it is that rostam batmanglij left vampire weekend to eventually make the most walking-on-air pop music ever with carly rae jepsen

#carly rae jepsen #rostam batmanglij

[pleasequietplease]

We are lying

On the beach now

Everything is warm

We are staying up

Through a wild night

In the faint light

Of the headlights

Of passing cars

#rostam #rostam batmanglij #in a river #lyrics #indie+music #indie rock #indie music #indie #music #alternative #singer songwriter #vampire weekend #2018 #indie pop #Spotify

[mywifeleftme]

93: Vampire Weekend // Contra

Contra Vampire Weekend 2010, XL Recordings

Contra dropped right in the heart of what was, in retrospect but also at the time, an incredibly stupid backlash against Vampire Weekend. Fortunately, in the year of Our Lord 2023, there’s no longer any need to litigate the right of this band to exist, but it’s funny to look back at how perfectly calibrated this album was to further piss off anyone who’d hated their debut. “Too Ivy League, too WASPy,” detractors groused, so here’s a song called “Diplomat’s Son.” “They shouldn’t be appropriating African music,” members of the faculty of arts moaned, so here’s an updated song from Koenig and Tomson’s pre-VW hip-hop project (“Giving Up the Gun”). “They’re inauthentic!” said some guy in a Bad Religion t-shirt, so here are a few Auto-Tuned bars, causing that man (and Jay-Z presumably) to spontaneously shit his drawers.

I don’t think Contra is the sound of trolling, exactly, so much as it is a band who heard everyone telling them the places they shouldn’t go and decided to go have a poke around some of them. If it’s a hair less consistent than their wall-to-wall banger debut, it also reaps the benefits of its wider range: even as “Cousins” and the extraordinary “White Sky” proved they were still capable of writing compact indie pop gems, the dayglo electronica of “Run” and languid bleep-bloop ska of “Diplomat’s Son” found them creating ever more immersive soundscapes, each full of unexpected detail and surprise. Though it’s fair to think of it as a bridge between their self-titled and the celebrated Modern Vampires of the City, I’ve always thought of Contra as my favourite by the group.

A bit of an aside, but despite all the deserved fawning over the band’s songwriting and Batmanglij’s production over the years, I realized recently that I think Koenig is a bit underappreciated as a vocalist. Listening to the way he consistently turns his own wordy, hyper-literate lyrics into fluid pop, reminds me of what Cole Porter remarked upon hearing Ella Fitzgerald’s take on his songbook: “My, what marvelous diction that girl has.” Like the singer to whom he’s most often compared, Paul Simon, he has a high, pretty voice that might seem thin in the hands (cords?) of a less sensitive vocalist, but he transcends it by making the right choices. In 2014 Koenig performed a duet of “I Think Ur a Contra” with Angelique Kidjo, a vocalist who is always poised to (warmly) eat her duet partner’s lunch, yet despite the massive disparity in firepower, Koenig holds his own. He keeps to the breathy little melismatic adornments that brought him to the dance even as she does her usual bravura thing, and the steadiness of his performance makes for be a nice study in contrasts, two ways to get at the emotion latent in an elegantly built song.

93/365

#vampire weekend #rostam batmanglij #chris tomson #chris baio #contra #angelique kidjo #'10s music #indie rock #indie pop #music review #vinyl record

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Friday, 29 April 2016

Rostam Batmanglij

#Rostam Batmanglij #Friday #29 April #2016 #2010s

[visionsofgideontheninth]

carly rae jepsen + rostam = match made in heaven

#western wind #go find yourself or whatever #carly rae jepsen #rostam batmanglij

[stellarskull]

#discovery #rostam batmanglij #stellar radio

[saint-strawberry]

#can we fucking talk about it #discovery #angel deradoorian #rostam batmanglij #Spotify

[linernotesandseasons]

I could spend HOURS watching videos like this! I LOVE this album.

#raveena aurora #rostam batmanglij #asha's awakening #Youtube

[roughtradeversion]

02-12-2008

#vampire weekend #ezra koenig #rostam batmanglij #lycheejelly1.txt #indie rock

[musicshelfwithmustard]

A Conversation with reedcee

Mustard had the pleasure of reedcee who just recently announced their upcoming new album Cry Cowboy which we discuss in this interview. Together we discussed their identity, their influences, going viral on TikTok, and so much more! Check it out below!

Mustard had the pleasure of reedcee who just recently announced their upcoming new album Cry Cowboy which we discuss in this interview. Together we discussed their identity, their influences, going viral on TikTok, and so much more! Check it out below! 1. Hello! Mustard would like to thank you and others in the trench coat for being here. How is everyone?  Hey Mustard. I feel like I should…

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#creative process #Hold #lgbtq #lockdown #Maggie Rogers #music interview #music shelf with mustard #Pharrell Williams #Queer #queer experience #reedcee #Rostam Batmanglij #shapeshifting #social media #songwriting #spotify #TikTok #UK #viral #viral video #Wrong guy #X-men

[grrlmusic]

Vagabon - Carpenter (Official Lyric Video)

#youtube #music #Vagabon #Carpenter #Rostam #batmanglij

[fourteenfifteen]

#rostam #mr batmanglij. u get it #hen’s playlist #i love this song sm #Spotify