okayafrica (Youtube) The 8 Songs You Need to Hear This Week
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Here s our round up of the best tracks and music videos that came across our desks, which you can also check out in our Songs You Need to Hear This Week playlists on Spotify and Apple Music.
Follow our SONGS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS WEEK playlist on Spotify here and Apple Music here. Teni For You ft. Davido
Nigerian singer and songwriter
Teni shines in her latest music video For You featuring fellow Nigerian star
Davido. For You , which is centred on a prison escape, sees Davido and Teni teaming up for a thrilling visual escapade. The For You music video starts of with Teni behind bars and comically relays the love story that lead to her re-arrest. Davido plays the lover who visits her and breaks her out of jail but the freedom lasts for a short while.
Femi Kuti and son
Legacy +.
Legendary activist and Afrobeat originator,
Fela Kuti, used his music to lament social injustices and political corruption in his native Nigeria. Fela’s legacy spans decades and genres, touching on jazz, pop, funk, hip-hop, rock, and beyond. While this impact can be felt in Nigeria and the entire world, it also greatly affected Fela’s son Femi and his grandson Made, both of whom carry his legacy as torchbearers for change.
Legacy + comprises Femi s
For(e)ward. Both albums that make up Legacy + are steeped in the tradition of Afrobeat invented by Fela, but each also offers their own unique vision. Femi’s
On February 5, 2021, Femi Kuti and his son Made Kuti release ‘Legacy +,’ a special two-album package that includes solo albums from each artist – Femi’s ‘Stop The Hate’ and Made’s ‘For(e)ward’.
The project has earned critical acclaim while Femi and Made proudly carry on Fela Kuti’s legacy as torchbearers for change. To celebrate the release, Femi has shared a music video for ‘Stop The Hate’ highlight “As We Struggle Everyday” (filmed by Optimus Dammy, edited by Audrey Hurtis, with illustrations by Kiki Picasso). Watch below:
Both albums that make up ‘Legacy +’ are steeped in the tradition of Afrobeat invented by Fela Kuti (Femi’s father, and Made’s grandfather), but each also brings their own unique vision and sound.
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD FOR THE FIRST TIME
There has been a hell of a lot of hype around Black Country, New Road. And what’s more, the Cambridgeshire sextet are self-aware enough to acknowledge it.
“Just to think I could’ve left the fair with my dignity intact/And fled from the stage with the world’s second-best Slint tribute act,” singer Isaac Wood jokes on recent single Science Fair, making wry reference to the band’s frequent (and, to be fair, pretty on-the-nose) comparisons to the ’90s alt favourites. It’s one of many knowing lyrical nods to the attention that’s surrounded the group in the past year or so, and the accompanying rush to pigeon-hole them with what’s gone before.