Rostam Announces Debut Solo LP 'Half-Light', Shares New Track Bike Dream
Thursday, 15 June 2017
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Claire Vogel
Rostam Batmanglij will release his debut solo album this autumn.
The former Vampire Weekend member will put out 'Half-Light' on September 8 through Nonesuch Records. Discussing the record's title with NPR, he said:
"I was struck by the fact that it was a word with a double meaning. That felt important to this record. It made me think back to a friend in Japan who told me that the word 'double' was becoming more and more popular than 'half' for people to describe their split ethnicities. Any person growing up in America with immigrant parents experiences this dichotomy, of feeling both double and half. It's something a lot of us who identify as queer experienced growing up as well, slipping between straight and gay worlds, code-switching. I say 'experienced' in the past tense because I don't know that that's the experience today's kids will have. Things are changing."
Head below to check out the lyric video for Bike Dream, the second track to be shared from the album, and here to spin the previously shared Gwan.
In 2016 Batmanglij also teamed up with Hamilton Leithauser of the Walkmen for a collaborative album, 'I Had A Dream That You Were Mine', which arrived in September through Glassnote.
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