From iTunes Foreign Exchange, we have two cover tracks from the likes of Yelle & Roby.
From wiki:
iTunes Foreign Exchange features two bands from two different countries covering one of the other’s songs in their native tongue.
Discovery – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft. Angel Deradoorian)
Lighthearted electronic pop track from Discovery’s full length titled “LP”. Guest vocals provided by Angel Deradoorian from Dirty Projectors/Deradoorian. This track has charming electronic elements blended with sick vocal harmonies.
Discovery – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft. Angel Deradoorian)
Press Release:
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.
NEW: Maps – Valium in The Sunshine
One of my favorite albums of 2007 was from unknown artist at the time by the name of Maps, the album was “We Can Create”. Maps, an alias for a James Chapman, recorded the entire album in his bedroom with nothing more than a 16 track. Well, he’s back with a new release, “Valium in The Sunshine” from his latest effort titled, “Chemeleon” (Due out sometime in August). You get a glimpse of what’s in store for his new opus toward the end of this track. It’s a little more darker, a little more moodier, and alot more driven.
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