{"id":16310,"date":"2025-07-23T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16310\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:58:17","slug":"vampire-weekends-chris-baio-and-fort-romeau-reunite-for-new-c-y-m-songs-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16310\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend\u2019s Chris Baio and Fort Romeau Reunite for New C.Y.M. Songs: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5594-vampire-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vampire Weekend<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29826-baio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Baio<\/a> and electronic producer Michael Greene, better known as <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30178-fort-romeau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Romeau<\/a>, have revived their <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/cym-chris-baio-michael-greene\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">C.Y.M.<\/a> moniker for a new pair of singles. \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justify<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/justifycatania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catania<\/a>\u201d\u2014the latter of which features saxophone courtesy of Colin Killalea\u2014mark the duo\u2019s first music since releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/vampire-weekend-chris-baio-and-fort-romeau-form-new-duo-cym-announce-debut-ep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a self-titled EP<\/a> in 2019. Listen to both new tracks below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Justify \/ Catania\u2019 is the first taste of a journey that began in January 2020,\u201d Baio and Greene shared in a press statement. \u201cThis journey involves many places (Los Angeles, London, Glasgow, Paris, and Lagos) and many extremely talented collaborators (we\u2019ll be telling you all about them soon). There\u2019s a long road ahead; for now, we hope you enjoy the beginning of this ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baio shared his latest solo album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/vampire-weekend-chris-baio-announces-album-shares-videos-for-new-songs-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dead Hand Control<\/a>, in 2021. He\u2019ll <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/vampire-weekend-announce-spring-2025-north-american-tour-dates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">perform with Vampire Weekend<\/a> through the rest of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Philip Sherburne\u2019s review of Fort Romeau\u2019s 2018 track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/fort-romeau-pablo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend\u2019s Chris Baio and electronic producer Michael Greene, better known as Fort Romeau, have revived their C.Y.M.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,1590,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}