LP (Discovery album)

LP
Studio album by Discovery
Released	July 7, 2009 (2009-07-07)
Recorded	July 2005 – January 2009
Genre	Electropop
Length	29:54
Label	XL
Producer	Rostam Batmanglij, Wes Miles, Ezra Koenig

LP is the debut and only album by the band Discovery, released July 7, 2009 on vinyl on July 14, 2009 on CD via XL Recordings.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The A.V. Club	A−[2]
Drowned in Sound	4/10[3]
The New York Times	Favorable[4]
NME	7/10[5]
Pitchfork Media	6.8/10[6]
Planet Sound	4/10[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]

Initial critical response to LP was generally favorable.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Orange Shirt"	Rostam Batmanglij, Wes Miles	3:31
2.	"Osaka Loop Line"	Batmanglij, Miles, Ezra Koenig	4:02
3.	"Can You Discover?"	Batmanglij, Miles	2:22
4.	"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (featuring Angel Deradoorian)	Batmanglij, Miles	2:40
5.	"So Insane"	Batmanglij, Miles	3:13
6.	"Swing Tree"	Batmanglij, Miles	2:38
7.	"Carby" (featuring Ezra Koenig)	Batmanglij, Miles, Koenig	3:07
8.	"I Want You Back"	Batmanglij, Miles, The Corporation	3:26
9.	"It's Not My Fault (It's My Fault)"	Batmanglij, Miles	2:34
10.	"Slang Tang"	Batmanglij, Miles	2:28

iTunes Store bonus track

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Orange Shirt (Rock Remix) [Bonus Track]"	3:32

Personnel

• Rostam Batmanglij – vocals, drum and synth programming and playing
• Wes Miles – vocals, drum and synth programming and playing

References

1. LP at AllMusic
2. Marc Hawthorne.The A.V. Club review The A.V. Club. 7 July 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
3. Andrzej Lukowski. Drowned in Sound review Archived 2009-07-11 at the Wayback Machine Drowned in Sound. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
4. Jon Pareles.New CDs. The New York Times. 20 July 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
5. Alex Miller. [1] NME. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
6. Plagenhoef, Scott (9 July 2009). "Album Reviews: Discovery: LP". Pitchfork. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
7. Earls, John (2 July 2009). "Review: Discovery/LP". Teletext. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
8. "LP : Discovery : Review : Rolling Stone". www.rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 26 July 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
9. Robert Christgau. Robert Christgau: CG: Discovery robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 9 December 2011.