Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles launch EP DISCOVERY one week early for Oxfam

Indyish just received this email from Amie St, one of the music sites that offer flexible pricing for music downloads, about the Discovery project coming out early… to staunch the leak perhaps? Anyway – yay for good things that come early and projects that help people! Spend your disposable ducats wisely and well my friends, and psst – check out live video of this unholy Vampire Weekend / Ra Ra Riot mutant baby and it’s indie electro for Oxfam on the Bonafide with Headphones blog if you need to get pumped for your purchase. Madness.

Hi Indyish,

Today we are releasing one of the most anticipated indie rock/pop albums of the summer in an exclusive effort to raise money for Oxfam America, and I wanted to see if you’re interested. Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot, who are Discovery, have decided to surprise fans and drop their long awaited new album, LP, one week early in a special effort to raise money for Oxfam.

I wanted to give you the heads up, and thought that you and your readers would be interested! Thanks so much, and the album is to be found here: http://amiestreet.com/music/discovery/lp .

Take care,

Zane

DISCOVERY Release LP One Week Early

Surprise fans with pre-release to benefit Oxfam America

New York, NY (June 30, 2009) – Discovery, the band comprised of Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot) have just released their highly anticipated debut as part of Amie Street’s Download To Make A Difference campaign.

LP is now available one week early exclusively on AmieStreet.com at the sale price of $8 in an effort by the group to raise money for Oxfam America.

“I am thrilled to have Oxfam be a part of this release,” said Miles. “Oxfam’s focus on broad advocacy and local relief for the impoverished is inspiring and I hope our support brings more awareness about their projects and goals.”

For each album sold, AmieStreet.com and XL Recordings are donating $2 to Oxfam America (www.oxfamamerica.org), an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 100 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice.

Discovery is the recording project of Batmanglij and Miles, friends who began recording together in the summer of 2005. One year later they had committed themselves to their respective bands, Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, but nonetheless continued to record together when they both found themselves in the same city. The project is many things: it’s partly an attempt to realize Wes’s concept of a band where everyone plays synthesizers, and of Rostam’s concept for an album where handclaps keep the backbeat instead of snare drums.

It’s an embrace and also a commentary on the pop music of the past decade, of booming 808 bass and jittery sixteenth note high-hats. If soul music is secularized, sexualized gospel, Discovery is an attempt to see if soul music can survive being plasticized, roboticized, quantized, chopped, and finally, screwed. The album features Rostam and Wes each singing half the songs and guest vocals from Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors).

The exclusive release marks the seventh major release for AmieStreet.com’s Download To Make A Difference campaign, which has raised tens of thousands of dollars for organizations like the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Food Bank For New York City, and the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation since its launch ten months ago.

LP is released by XL Recordings (Sigur Rós, Adele, Vampire Weekend). To download the fantastic new album and support Oxfam America go to: http://amiestreet.com/music/discovery/lp

About AmieStreet.com®

Founded in the Spring of 2006, AmieStreet.com is the first music destination where the community determines the price of songs, which start out free and rise in price the more they are purchased. For recommending songs that subsequently rise in price, AmieStreet.com rewards its members with free downloads. Currently Amie Street has over 1.5 million songs for fans to choose from, spanning every genre and artists big and small. Amazon.com led Amiestreet.com’s Series A round of financing in August 2007. The company is located in New York City.

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