Blog: SoundsXP

Discovery: LP This is the sort of album that should come out as a bonus disc; it's a collaboration by Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot) of 80s synth-pop, full of synths, synth-drums and, of course, the dreaded vocoder. It's quite inoffensive, technically proficient, but has little soul and therefore doesn't stand up on its own. If it were an exam paper (as it might have been) it would get a [...]