The Very Best embodies a without-borders approach to music-making that could only happen in the 21st century. On their debut album, Warm Heart of Africa, the group, started by European production duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, concoct new global pop that lands somewhere between a Michael Jackson break-beat and an electro-Malawian Graceland. Also featured on this album are singer M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig.

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The Very Best embodies a without-borders approach to music-making that could only happen in the 21st century. On their debut album, Warm Heart of Africa, the group, started by European production duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, concoct new global pop that lands somewhere between a Michael Jackson break-beat and an electro-Malawian Graceland. Also featured on this album are singer M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig.

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The difference between 2000's The Very Best of Badfinger and 1995's Come and Get It: The Best of Badfinger is a simple one -- the 1995 collection concentrated on the group's Apple recordings, where the 2000 collection runs all the way until 1974's Wish You Were Here, the band's final album with Pete Ham. Not only does the collection benefit from the expanded timeline, but it has a sharp selection of songs from the classic Apple years -- yes, "Flying" is absent and Ass is bypassed (p...   [ read more ]

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