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We’re Back, In A Big Way: 2010 In Retrospect

In Canada, Celebrate Your Scene, Choice Cuts, Features, London and the UK, Montréal, New England, New Jersey, Worldwide on January 12, 2011 at 6:00 am

We’re nostalgic already. Remember Kanye’s album? That was dope. Seriously though, we had a great year and we hope you did too. Here’s a little something we put together to put all our love for 2010 in one place.

The list was made by averaging Matt, Steve, and Ethan‘s 25 favorite albums of 2010 (Arnold‘s opinion, though very highly regarded, was not included because he doesn’t like to confine music to lists…or he just didn’t make one). Click on the artist to see what we’ve had to say about them previously, and click the album art on a select few albums for a little surprise.

TOP 26 ALBUMS OF 2010

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Chimurenga, D'Gary, Hedzoleh Soundz, Miguel de la Bastide, S.E. Rogie, Vampire Weekend

Chimurenga Pt. 3

In Choice Cuts, Worldwide on April 20, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Find Chimurenga Pt. 1 Here, and Pt. 2 Here.

SO, none of this music is actually Chimurenga Music. This was something I always knew was going to happen, but, the name still stands; Chimurenga means struggle in Shona, and if we divide human life into Struggle or the Absence of Struggle, this music always applies. (See what I did there.)

Today’s theme is (loosely) ‘Backgrounds to Vampire Weekend’. Of course, Vampire Weekend draw from many and various different styles of music, but the reason I first started listening to them was that they were influenced by many of the African sounds I love.

The first two songs are from my own collection. Guitar based, they are the sort influences I noticed straight away in the Weekend’s work. The first song ‘Edinya Benya’ by Hedzoleh Soundz, shares an almost identical guitar sound and style to the songs on ‘Vampire Weekend’. The second song ‘Bara Riano’, is actually a duet between Madagascan Guitarist D’Gary (check him out for sure) and Flamenco Guitarist Miguel de la Bastide. In that sense it is not strictly ‘straight-from-the-bush’, but it shows the type of sounds that are produced when two worlds collide, and it is really beautiful.

The last song, ‘Do Me Justice’ by palm-wine guitarist S.E. Rogie, however, comes to me via a friend, and its sound is so similar to Vampire Weekend’s it cannot be counted as an influence anymore: Music is Theft!

Edinya Benya by Hedzoleh Soundz – Download Here