Rostam has released a new song, These Kids We Knew.
The hazy, acoustic track reflects on generational conflicts over climate change and follows the former Vampire Weekend member's singles Under Control and Unfold You, released at the end of 2020. He said:
"I was thinking of three generations while I was writing this song. There’s a generation of adults who don’t see global warming as their problem because they think they won’t be impacted by it. Then there’s a generation younger than mine, who will certainly have to deal with what is happening. In the song I have a fantasy of the younger generation arresting the adults and putting them on trial in the streets of cities around the world. Those are the 'sidewalk courts' that I sing about in the song.
"The song was written in a fever-dream state during the second week of March last year while I was recovering from COVID-19."
Rostam put out his debut solo album, 'Half-Light', in 2017. Since then, he's produced and contributed to other artists' work, most recently Haim's 2020 LP 'Women in Music Pt III' and Clairo's 2019 full-length 'Immunity'.
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