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Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, has released “Do Your Worst,” a new song from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15 on Nonesuch Records, and a video for it directed by Angela Ricciardi. The song, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA Twigs), combines dance-floor euphoria, breakneck-paced jungle beats, and a DJ’s sense of pacing through Vagabon’s signature storytelling. You can watch it here.

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Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, has released “Do Your Worst,” a new song from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15 on Nonesuch Records, and a video for it directed by Angela Ricciardi. The song, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA Twigs), combines dance-floor euphoria, breakneck-paced jungle beats, and a DJ’s sense of pacing through Vagabon’s signature storytelling.

"I was nestled in the German countryside when Teo Halm, who co-produced this with me, and I were experimenting in my home studio late into the night. I was listening to a lot of club music, and I set out to make an instrumental that drew from the music you’d hear at an underground club in Germany or the UK yet still lived in the Vagabon musical lexicon,” Tamko explains. “A year later, when I returned to the US, I got Rostam involved and he had a great idea of adding a layer of live drums on top of the breakbeat from my Germany session."

Sorry I Haven’t Called finds Tamko reinventing herself once again and features the most playful and adventurous music of her career. “I didn't feel like being introspective. I just wanted to have fun,” Tamko explains. Following her intimate 2017 debut Infinite Worlds, the New York artist favored expansive and evocative electronic textures in her breakthrough 2019 self-titled follow-up. But her latest LP feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that’s transformational and uncompromising. Across twelve 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.

In addition to her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this weekend, Vagabon is hitting the road this fall on a tour that includes a headline run in the US with support from Nourished By Time as well as Europe dates with Weyes Blood. See below for details; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

VAGABON ON TOUR

Jul 22 Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, IL
     
Oct 21 El Club Detroit, MI
Oct 22 Velvet Underground Toronto, ON
Oct 24 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
Oct 26 Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA
Oct 27 Underground Arts Philadelphia, PA
Oct 28 Space Ballroom Hamden, CT
Oct 29 The Atlantis Washington, DC
     
Oct 31 Sala Apolo* Barcelona, SPAIN
Nov 2 Le Transbordeur* Lyon, FRANCE
Nov 3 Alcatraz* Milan, ITALY
Nov 4 Les Docks* Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Nov 6 Astra Kulturhaus* Berlin, GERMANY
Nov 7 TivoliVredenburg* Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
Nov 8 Pitchfork Music Festival* Paris, FRANCE
Nov 9 De Roma* Antwerp, BELGIUM
Nov 11 Old Fruitmarket* Glasgow, UK
Nov 12 O2 Academy* Leeds, UK
Nov 13 Pitchfork Music Festival* London, UK
Nov 14 Rock City* Nottingham, UK
     
Dec 6 The Independent San Francisco, CA
Dec 8 Madame Lou's Seattle, WA
Dec 9 Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC
Dec 10 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
Dec 13 Lodge Room Los Angeles, CA
     

* w/Weyes Blood

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Vagabon: "Do Your Worst" [video]
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
    Watch: Vagabon Releases “Do Your Worst” From Upcoming Album, ‘Sorry I Haven’t Called’
    Angela Ricciardi

    Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, has released “Do Your Worst,” a new song from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15 on Nonesuch Records, and a video for it directed by Angela Ricciardi. The song, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA Twigs), combines dance-floor euphoria, breakneck-paced jungle beats, and a DJ’s sense of pacing through Vagabon’s signature storytelling.

    "I was nestled in the German countryside when Teo Halm, who co-produced this with me, and I were experimenting in my home studio late into the night. I was listening to a lot of club music, and I set out to make an instrumental that drew from the music you’d hear at an underground club in Germany or the UK yet still lived in the Vagabon musical lexicon,” Tamko explains. “A year later, when I returned to the US, I got Rostam involved and he had a great idea of adding a layer of live drums on top of the breakbeat from my Germany session."

    Sorry I Haven’t Called finds Tamko reinventing herself once again and features the most playful and adventurous music of her career. “I didn't feel like being introspective. I just wanted to have fun,” Tamko explains. Following her intimate 2017 debut Infinite Worlds, the New York artist favored expansive and evocative electronic textures in her breakthrough 2019 self-titled follow-up. But her latest LP feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that’s transformational and uncompromising. Across twelve 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.

    In addition to her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this weekend, Vagabon is hitting the road this fall on a tour that includes a headline run in the US with support from Nourished By Time as well as Europe dates with Weyes Blood. See below for details; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

    VAGABON ON TOUR

    Jul 22 Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, IL
         
    Oct 21 El Club Detroit, MI
    Oct 22 Velvet Underground Toronto, ON
    Oct 24 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
    Oct 26 Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA
    Oct 27 Underground Arts Philadelphia, PA
    Oct 28 Space Ballroom Hamden, CT
    Oct 29 The Atlantis Washington, DC
         
    Oct 31 Sala Apolo* Barcelona, SPAIN
    Nov 2 Le Transbordeur* Lyon, FRANCE
    Nov 3 Alcatraz* Milan, ITALY
    Nov 4 Les Docks* Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
    Nov 6 Astra Kulturhaus* Berlin, GERMANY
    Nov 7 TivoliVredenburg* Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
    Nov 8 Pitchfork Music Festival* Paris, FRANCE
    Nov 9 De Roma* Antwerp, BELGIUM
    Nov 11 Old Fruitmarket* Glasgow, UK
    Nov 12 O2 Academy* Leeds, UK
    Nov 13 Pitchfork Music Festival* London, UK
    Nov 14 Rock City* Nottingham, UK
         
    Dec 6 The Independent San Francisco, CA
    Dec 8 Madame Lou's Seattle, WA
    Dec 9 Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC
    Dec 10 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
    Dec 13 Lodge Room Los Angeles, CA
         

    * w/Weyes Blood

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