Rostam Batmanglij performing with Vampire Weekend (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has confirmed Rostam Batmanglij has made contributions to the band’s new album, despite officially leaving in 2016.
At the time of his bandmate’s departure, Koenig did hint that the pair would continue working together in the future, writing that, ‘A couple years ago, Rostam and I sat down at his house and talked about whether our collaboration was dependent on being members of the same band’.
“We both firmly agreed that nope, it was not,” he continued. “In fact, we agreed that our collaboration was more important.”
Now, Koenig has told Entertainment Weekly that they are in fact, ‘working on some songs in the exact same way we’ve always worked’. “We have some stuff that we started a pretty long time ago,” he added.
Vampire Weekend are working closely with producer Ariel Rechtshaid on what will be their first studio album since 2013’s Modern Vampires Of The City.
