Brooklyn-based singer Lætitia Tamko, who records under the name Vagabon, has released “Do Your Worst,” the newest single from her forthcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due Sept. 15 via Nonesuch Records. This is the third track released off the project. On Sorry I Haven’t Called, Tamko promises the most playful and adventurous music of her career. “I didn’t feel like being introspective. I just wanted to have fun,” Tamko says.
The glittering track, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA twigs), lives up to the promise. Combining drum-and-bass jungle beats, honeyed vocals, and Moby-esque cinematic production, the dance floor track finds buttery, soulful movement through strobe lights. The video, directed by Angela Ricciardi, is a glitching, sultry dreamscape where Tamko dances under city lights.
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“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 U.K. yet still lived in the Vagabon musical lexicon,” Tamko explains. “A year later, when I returned to the U.S., 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.”
In addition to her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this weekend, Vagabon is hitting the road this fall on a headlining tour in the U.S. with support from Nourished By Time as well as Europe dates with Weyes Blood.
Watch the “Do Your Worst” video below.
