The premise of Discovery alone is enough to have you worried before you listen – one of the guys from Vampire Weekend and one of the guys from Ra Ra Riot record a synthy R&B pop album in the style of so many modern hitmakers – but the results are even more unlistenable than you’d expect, as these two tumble through every modern pop cliche in the book (handclaps, auto-tune, chopped vocals, repetitive lyrics about shallow romance and clubbing) in a series of poorly and clearly very hastily constructed songs (including an insultingly bad and ill-timed cover of “I Want You Back”) that aren’t even catchy or fun as disposable pop, just silly and obnoxious; LP (groan) is a joke and a disgustingly shameless effort at hipster-baiting.

3.5 / 10

XL
July 7, 2009