![]() This devastating and unexpected loss unmoored Tamko but also gave her a newfound clarity. The story of Sorry I Haven’t Called started in grief after her best friend died in 2021. Vagabon has also announced a fall tour that includes a headline run in the US as well as European and UK dates with Weyes Blood. There’s beauty in plainly speaking without metaphors and without flowery imagery.” “I think honesty and conversational songwriting can become poetry. “This whole record is how I talk to my friends and how to talk to my lovers,” says Tamko. The 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. ![]() These conversational songs are alive and unselfconscious, a document of an artist fully embracing her vision and reclaiming her joy. ![]() Across twelve vibrant tracks she wrote and produced primarily in Germany, she channels dance music and effervescent pop through her own confident sensibilities. But her latest LP feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that’s transformational and uncompromising. “I just wanted to have fun.” 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 Nonesuch debut album. “I didn't feel like being introspective,” Tamko says of Sorry I Haven’t Called. The album, co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo), 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?” and accompanying video, directed by Zac Dov Wiesel. Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, will release her new album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, September 15 on Nonesuch Records.
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