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Rostam Batmanglij has announced on Twitter that he has left Vampire Weekend. He says that though he and Ezra Koenig will continue to collaborate, "my identity as a songwriter + producer needs to stand on its own."
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— Rostam Batmanglij (@matsoR) January 26, 2016
Vampire Weekend's last album was 2013's Modern Vampires of the City.
Rostam just put out a new solo single called "EOS." He has also collaborated with Charli XCX, Jenny Lewis, Wavves and Cloud Nothings, Carly Rae Jepsen, Ra Ra Riot, Hamilton Leithauser, and others.
In our new interview, Rostam discussed his association with the band:
I understand the idea of me being "a dude in a band," because people got to know me through Vampire Weekend, but it has caused a lot of frustration for me because I came from a different place from the get-go. Even though I’ve been making electronic music since I was 14, it’s hard for people to see you as a producer with a musical identity when you’re contextualized in a band that performs on a stage. I mean, maybe people don’t see the last Vampire Weekend album as electronic music, but I do—if you were with us when we were making it, you would think of it as electronic music.
Read that interview here.
via Amy Phillips
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