{"title":"Vagabon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamko is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from New York. She has been recording music since 2014 under the name Vagabon. With her unique blend of indie rock and electronic sounds, Vagabon's music captivates listeners with its emotive lyrics and catchy melodies. Her talent as a songwriter shines through in every song she creates, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and introspection. Whether performing live or in the studio, Vagabon's passion for music is evident in every note she plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"infinite-worlds-2","title":"Infinite Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithin the songs of Laetitia Tamko there are infinite worlds: emotional spaces that grow wider with time, songs within songs that reveal themselves on each listen. Tamko is a multiinstrumentalist and a producer, recording since 2014 as Vagabon. Her forthcoming debut, Infinite Worlds, builds upon Tamko’s stripped-down demos that have been circulating online and throughout the independent music community for the past two years. Tamko’s songs are embedded with her own story and personal history: growing up in Cameroon, her family’s move to New York and adjusting to culture shock. She grew up around music and loved it, but finishing engineering school was a priority before music could start to feel like a real possibility. To date, Tamko mostly listens to East and West African music nostalgic of her childhood, styles of music that influence her own in subtle ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Father \/ Daughter Records","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50405376033099,"sku":"2189204","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Vagabon_-_Infinite_Worlds_072591db_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726576539"},{"product_id":"infinite-worlds","title":"Infinite Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eReissue on Marathon of the album that came out earlier this year on Father\/Daughter records and was a Pitchfork favourite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the songs of \u003cstrong\u003eLaetitia Tamko\u003c\/strong\u003e there are infinite worlds: emotional spaces that grow wider with time, songs within songs that reveal themselves on each listen. 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It’s about that A-HA moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, 'I finally get it now.'''\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Me Please","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50496241664331,"sku":"2225269","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_2219f0c4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727718817"},{"product_id":"vagabon","title":"Vagabon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVagabon \u003c\/i\u003ewas written and produced entirely by Tamko. Guitar-driven melodies are largely absent, and in their place we are treated to a collection of songs buoyed by hybridized analogue and digital arrangements. While \u003ci\u003eInfinite Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e situated the last Vagabon project in the realm of \"indie rock”, \u003ci\u003eVagabon\u003c\/i\u003e is not easily defined. Grounded by Tamko's expressive voice and knack for unique melodies, the album flits between genres, never lingering too long on one particular sensibility. Lead single \u003ci\u003eFlood Hands\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies this growth; the production ebbs like a gentle tide before a cavernous drumbeat kicks in and the tone shifts completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamko's Nonesuch Records debut \u003ci\u003eVagabon\u003c\/i\u003e, finds her in a state of creative expansion, leaning fully into some of the experimental instincts she flirted with on the previous album. This time around, she's throwing genre to the wind. \u003ci\u003eVagabon\u003c\/i\u003e is a vibrant culmination of influences, emotional landscapes, and moods; a colourful and masterful statement by an artist and producer stepping into her own. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50522428375371,"sku":"1069312","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/66be3ea7-28e1-4bad-b2c9-f8f60eb32f83_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728005626"},{"product_id":"sorry-i-havent-called","title":"Sorry I Havent Called","description":"\u003cp\u003eNonesuch releases \u003ci\u003eSorry I Haven’t Called,\u003c\/i\u003e the new album by Vagabon, the moniker of Lætitia Tamko.  Co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo), it finds Tamko reinventing herself once again and features the most playful and adventurous music of her career, as evidenced by its lead track and opening song ‘\"Can I Talk My Shit?\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I didn’t feel like being introspective,” says Tamko of her new album.  “I just wanted to have fun.”  Following her intimate 2017 debut Infinite Worlds, the New York artist favoured expansive and evocative electronic textures in her breakthrough 2019 self-titled follow-up.  But her latest album feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that’s transformational and uncompromising.  Across 12 vibrant tracks she wrote and produced primarily in Germany, she channels dance music and effervescent pop through her own confident sensibilities.  These conversational songs are alive and unselfconscious, a document of an artist fully embracing her vision and reclaiming her joy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first words she sings on the album are, “Can I talk my shit? \/ I got way too high for this.”  It’s a statement of purpose for the rest of the album that this is an unapologetic artist.  “This whole record is how I talk to my friends and how to talk to my lovers,” says Tamko. “I think honesty and conversational songwriting can become poetry. There’s beauty in plainly speaking without metaphors and without flowery imagery.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of \u003ci\u003eSorry I Haven’t Called \u003c\/i\u003estarted in grief after Tamko’s best friend died in 2021.  This devastating and unexpected loss unmoored Tamko but also gave her a newfound clarity.  “The things that I thought I cared about, I no longer cared about,” she says.  “I had a realisation that I need to make sure to feel everything that comes my way.”  She decided to sell her things and move to a small lakeside village a few hours north of Hamburg in northern Germany to process everything.  “There's no linear path to grief, and everyone handles it differently, but uprooting my life just felt like exactly what I had to do,” says Tamko.  “I needed a place to think and go through my discomfort privately but to also explore the newness and urgency I was feeling in my life.”  In the village, her phone didn’t work and there were no close grocery stores or restaurants, so she spent her time alone working on music. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the palpable absence in her life, her new songs were her most disarming and ebullient yet.  The first one she wrote was ‘Carpenter’, a mesmerizing track anchored by a tangible bass groove, where she sings, “I wasn’t ready to move on out \/ but I'm more ready now.”  It’s a fully-realised track and feels like the culmination of her catalogue so far.  “A lot of the music that I was making there had nothing to do with my grief at all,” says Tamko.  “Once I gave myself permission to make a record that's full of life and energy, I realized that’s the point of this album.  In the midst of going through all of these tough things, it became a record because of the vitality that these songs had.”  For Tamko, there’s power in pursuing happiness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile writing in Germany, Tamko nurtured her love for dance music and let it seep into her new songs.  “The only things that were giving me access to a feeling were dance music and going to a rave in an extremely dark club where if I wanted to cry, I could do it and be around other people,” she says. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a few months in Germany that included marathon writing sessions and a whirlwind romance, Tamko decided to stay with friends in Los Angeles and finish her record.  She enlisted co-producer Rostam to help her unify her vision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSorry I Haven’t Called\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm and resilient album about embracing the ecstatic moments wherever you can by knowing how you love and how you mourn.  It’s an album born of both communal dancefloor revelations and the clarifying peace from solitude, an emotional rebirth as well as an artistic one.  “This record feels like what I've been working towards,” says Tamko.  “When I think of this album, I think of playfulness.  It's completely euphoric.  It's because things were dark that this record is so full of life and energy.  It’s a reaction to what I was experiencing at the time, not a document of it.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50525438869835,"sku":"2028727","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50525437985099,"sku":"2028725","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50525440606539,"sku":"2028729","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Sorry_I_Havent_Called_2088051e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728033342"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_1102fbc8_thumbnail_4096_60cb3937-658d-4249-adb5-c284232c9d0d.jpg?v=1726576519","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/vagabon.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}