Discovery LP - Premium Outdoor Adventure Gear for Hiking, Camping & Travel | Durable & Lightweight Equipment for Explorers

Discovery’s first and only album is filled with unrequited crushes, sublimated lust, tentative love given with a bated breath — pop songs with an implicitly queer view. “Can I sleep inside?/ I know you’re nervous, though/ So I promise to leave before your mother wakes up in the morning,” the group’s other half, Wes Miles, sings on its opening track.

Multiple songs evoke the dance floor, a gay haven and sanctuary that still can’t stave off the alienation and loneliness: “Where’s the freedom in the disco when you’re all alone?” Batmanglij’s Vampire Weekend bandmate Ezra Koenig asks in a guest feature on “Carby.”

On LP, Batmanglij found a kindred spirit in Wes Miles, the frontman of Ra Ra Riot. Both of them were part of buzzy groups that made sweeping, collegiate music and both of them were looking to break out of their prescribed sounds. They started working on music together in 2005, and when the album was released four years later, LP sounded ahead of the curve, a blend of indie-rock and electronic and hip-hop influences that would eventually become the norm.

Soon enough, everything would sound sort of like Discovery and Discovery would sound like nothing else, because they effectively stopped existing after this album.

The two of them packaged youthful anxieties into sputtering pop songs that sounded bright and confectionery but felt like the end of the world.

Vinyl, LP,  Limited Edition, Reissue, Orange

Tracklist:
A1 Orange Shirt
A2 Osaka Loop Line
A3 Can You Discover
A4 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
A5 So Insane
B1 Swing Tree
B2 Carby
B3 I Want You Back
B4 It’s Note My Fault (It’s My Fault)
B5 Slang Tang
B6 Orange Shirt (Rock Remix)