Discovery is an American
indie electronic recording project of
Rostam Batmanglij and
Wesley Miles, friends who began recording together in the summer of 2005.
History
Before Batmanglij and Miles found success in the
indie rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...
scene with
Vampire Weekend and
Ra Ra Riot, respectively, they recorded as the
synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s b ...
duo Discovery in 2005. Their music drew from the sounds of synth-pop and auto-tuned R&B. As Discovery, Batmanglij and Miles began recording an album together in 2006, but the project was left unfinished as Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot began to find chart success. After the release of the debut albums for both Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, Batmanglij and Miles returned to the studio to complete Discovery's debut album, ''
LP'', released in 2009.
Members
*
Rostam Batmanglij
*
Wes Miles
Discography
* ''
LP'' (July 7, 2009)
References
External links
*
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Indie rock musical groups from New York (state)
XL Recordings artists
Musical groups established in 2005
Electronic music groups from New York (state)
American rock music duos