Half-Light (album)
Half-Light is the debut solo studio album by American musician Rostam, released on September 15, 2017. The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and received generally favorable reviews.
Background
Half-Light was released a year after his departure from his acclaimed indie-pop band, Vampire Weekend, and his successful collaboration with the former The Walkmen singer, Hamilton Leithauser, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine. The album contains several tracks that were written many years before the release of Half-Light, with one song being written ten years prior to the album's release.Track listing
All tracks written and produced by Rostam Batmanglij, except where noted.;Notes
- signifies a lyricist.
- "Sumer" contains samples from "Sumer Is Icumen In" performed by The Revels Chorus.
- "Never Going To Catch Me" contains an interpolation of "Ndini Baba" by Dumisani Maraire.
- "Don't Let It Get To You" contains a sample from "The Obvious Child" as performed by Paul Simon.
- "When" contains excerpts from "You Are All I See" by Active Child.
Personnel
;Musicians- Rostam Batmanglij – vocals, drum programming, piano, synth, sampler, drums, acoustic guitar, string arrangement, electric guitar, bass, harpsichord, glasser, shaker, 12-string guitar, hand drums, double bass, harmonizer, horn arrangement, slide guitar
- Cameron Mesirow – backup vocals
- Garrett Ray – drums
- Hamilton Berry – cello
- Tony Flynt – double bass
- Kelly Zutrau – vocals
- Nick Rowe – hand claps, lap slaps
- Jonathan Chu – violin
- Max Wang – double bass
- Andrew Bulbrook – violin
- Angel Deradoorian – vocals, choir vocals
- Abhiman Kaushal – tabla
- Binki Shaprio – background vocals
- Adam Schatz – saxophone
- Joe Santa Maria – saxophone
- Rostam Batmanglij – production, mixing, engineering ; design and layout, front cover Polaroid digital pixelation
- Ariel Rechtshaid – additional production, engineering
- Francis Farewell Starlite – additional production
- Dave Fridmann – mixing
- Rob Orton – mixing
- Emily Lazar – mastering
- Chris Allgood – mastering assistance
- Nick Rowe – engineering
- Shane Stoneback – engineering
- Chris Rakestraw – engineering
- Justin Gerrish – engineering
- Michael Harris – engineering
- John DeBold – engineering
- Chris Kasych – engineering
- Logan Patrick – engineering
- Dave Schiffman – engineering
- Ben Tousley – design and layout
- Ezra Koenig – front cover Polaroid
- Jake Longstreth – back cover painting