The 30 Best Albums of 2009, Part Two

14. Discovery - LP A left field side-project from Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij & Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles eschews guitars in favor of ragged synths & shifting time scales. Like most experiments, it's not entirely successful (the "I Want You Back" cover, which spread quickly after a certain tragedy occurred this year, is an oddly glorious trainwreck), but when it scores, it scores big. More than anything, it's a great vehicle to show that Batmanglij and Miles, whose respec...

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