Rostam Batmanglij unveils solo album Half-Light’s title-track

Rostam Batmanglij has been a busy bee since leaving Vampire Weekend last year. Whilst racking various co-writing and producing credits, he also released the wonderful I Had a Dream That You Were Mine album with Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser and has his first solo album due on September 15th.

The title-track from Half-Light has now been shared and can be heard below.

“After I recorded the piano and my voice, I sat down at the drum kit and sketched in a beat,” Rostam says. “Then I picked up the bass and added acoustic guitars. The next thing was the fuzz guitar. I worked quickly and didn’t think too much about anything as I was recording it.”

“This is how I made music as a teenager with a four-track. I got as far as the first fade out on the guitar solo, but I didn’t feel like the song was done yet.”