Discovery is a new side project between Vampire Weekend’s keyboardist and producer Rostam Batmanglij and the lead-singer of Ra Ra Riot – Wes Miles.

Anything that is remotely to do with Vampire Weekend gets my attention straight away, so this album was an instant winner. Unfortunately, that’s not how a review works, so here goes…

Discovery is very different from Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot. I’m not saying that these bands aren’t funky, but LP is fun-ky!

Most of the tracks carry a strong hip-hop vibe of something that sounds like it might have come from the opposite end of high-class sounding Vampire Weekend, or indeed Ra Ra Riot.

I’m not going to lie here. I haven’t heard too much from Ra Ra Riot, except for the odd single. Did you notice? They do sound incredibly similar to Vampire Weekend though. Which shocks me, I would have guessed that RRR sounded a lot different to VW – based on the genre clash that is Discovery.

Back to LP itself. It’s futuristic, synthy and even features the odd special guest such as Ezra Koenig or Vampire Weekend. Shit, I went back to VW didn’t I. Sorry about that.

By the last two tracks. There is no rock/indie left in this album. It’s all very R’n'Bish, and the final track sums it up. ‘Slang Tang’? Wu-Tang more like. To be fair, the final track itself is a retreat back to the classic keyboardy soft-vocals of Vampire Weekend.