Rostam Batmanglij has left the nest of Vampire Weekend where it was generally felt he was the driving musical director. His first album Half-Light, is released today. It will inevitably remind you of Vampire Weekend, (not quite out of that nest). It's an intimate and somewhat more personal statement than Ezra Koenig allowed Weekend to be, sounds slightly demo-ish to me but has a definite cosy, chamber pop charm, (occasionally breaking out into bold, baroque flourishes reminiscent of Modern Vampires), like the first light of morning creeping through your curtains or the opening credits of a new Wes Anderson film.
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