i've listened to more new-to-me music this year than any year since college, and i was going to write a post about one of those albums (and i will eventually), but i wanted to take a minute to talk about discovery LP first, the only album i have enduringly loved since its release.

remember vampire weekend? sure, they're still around, but remember in 2008-2009 when they released their first two albums and they were fucking everywhere? remember ra ra riot and their first album and how it was also fucking everywhere? anyway in 2009, rostam batmanglij from vampire weekend and wes miles from ra ra riot got together under the name discovery and somehow found time in between all their other stuff to put out a synthpop project very simply named LP.

LP's r&b-tinged vocals and twinkly production were apparently kind of divisive at the time, but this was when i didn't read music press or criticism at all so i had no idea what the problems were with these cute songs that showed up on my passion pit pandora station (remember...the past?). the first six songs comprise an 18 minute run of the most compulsively listenable electronic pop ever made, gently lovelorn lyrics and all. the back half of the album isn't as strong, but the whole thing is only 30 minutes long, so if you have it set to repeat, you barely notice at all. fun fact, another version of "can you discover?" appears on ra ra riot's the rhumb line.

finally, the name discovery has to be a reference to the daft punk album, right? i don't think it's a coincidence that all of discovery's LP is like an album-length take on digital love, my actual favorite daft punk song.