Best New Tracks: Rostam Batmanglij

11/4/11

Vampire Weekend producer/multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij has just dropped a mind-expanding follow up track to September's "Wood" (http://soundcloud.com/musicrostam/wood), called "Don't Let It Get To You." This multi-layered  piece of electronica hurls us in a whole bunch of dreamy directions, some of which are occupied by Animal Collective-slurs and primitive drum beats, others of which appear to take influence from more whimsical folk tradition. BitCandy are totally impressed by the thought put into both of Batmanglij's tracks - so y'know, a whole album, please?

<object height="81" width="100%"><param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud...."></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud...." type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed></object><span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/musicrostam/dont-let-it-get-to-you">Don't Let it Get to You</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/musicrostam">ROSTAM</a></span>