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Rostam’s American Stories remains one of the richest release-week records to carry into 18 May, helped by deeper coverage that frames the album as a meditation on American identity, Persian heritage, beauty and political unease.
Rostam Batmanglij’s American Stories is explored as a record of identity and cultural hybridity.
Rostam releases American Stories on 15 May through Matsor Projects and Secretly Distribution, and the album sounds like a deliberate attempt to complicate what American music can mean.