Did you just finish watching the Inauguration? Feeling patriotic? Well you're not alone! Along with probably a few other people around the country, the musically adventurous, LA-based label Vosotros feels proud to be American today. So much so that they've decided to release a FREE compilation appropriately titled, ¡Yes We Peude! (in case your Spanish is a little rusty, "peude" means "can").
You know the tides of this country have turned when small indie labels are suddenly releasing updated interpretations of classic "Go America!" songs, and that is exactly what Vosotros has done. Featuring the likes of B.R.A.M, Learning Music, and Obi Best, ¡Yes We Puede! somehow manages to make a song like "My Country Tis of Thee" into an overdriven-Rhodes-and-drum machine jam! Similarly, the demented analog synths and 808s of Dream Kids' version of "Yankee Doodle" is more Ween than it is first grade.
Best of all? IT'S FREE. So if nothing else, download this, keep it on your shuffle playlist, and when one of these songs pops up months down the road, let it remind you of all the promises you made to get more involved and help improve this country back when President Obama was still President-Elect. I'm sure we'll need it just as much then as we do now.
Get iYes We Puede! here.
