Brooklyn-based singer Lætitia Tamko, who information underneath the identify Vagabon, has launched “Do Your Worst,” the latest single from her forthcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Known as, due Sept. 15 by way of Nonesuch Information. That is the third observe launched off the mission. On Sorry I Haven’t Known as, Tamko guarantees essentially the most playful and adventurous music of her profession. “I did not really feel like being introspective. I simply wished to have enjoyable,” Tamko says.
The glittering observe, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA twigs), lives as much as the promise. Combining drum-and-bass jungle beats, honeyed vocals, and Moby-esque cinematic manufacturing, the dance ground observe finds buttery, soulful motion by strobe lights. The video, directed by Angela Ricciardi, is a glitching, sultry dreamscape the place Tamko dances underneath metropolis lights.
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“I used to be nestled within the German countryside when Teo Halm, who co-produced this with me, and I have been experimenting in my dwelling studio late into the evening. I used to be listening to lots of membership music, and I got down to make an instrumental that drew from the music you’d hear at an underground membership in Germany or the U.Ok. but nonetheless lived within the Vagabon musical lexicon,” Tamko explains. “A 12 months later, after I returned to the U.S., I bought Rostam concerned, and he had a fantastic concept of including a layer of reside drums on high of the breakbeat from my Germany session.”
Along with her efficiency at Pitchfork Music Competition in Chicago this weekend, Vagabon is hitting the street this fall on a headlining tour within the U.S. with assist from Nourished By Time in addition to Europe dates with Weyes Blood.
Watch the “Do Your Worst” video under.
