| Years | |
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| Studio album by Years | |
| Released | May 5, 2009 |
| Recorded | 2008 |
| Genre | Instrumental, Post-Rock |
| Label | Arts & Crafts |
| Producer | Ohad Benchetrit |
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Chart |   |
| Drowned in Sound | (9/10) [2] |
| NME | (8/10) [3] |
Years is the debut solo album by Years, a solo project by Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene.
Ohad Benchetrit is a Canadian musician. He plays guitar, bass, saxophone and flute for the post-rock band Do Make Say Think, and has also contributed to albums by Broken Social Scene, Feist, The Hidden Cameras and Charles Spearin.
Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1995. Their music combines jazz-style drumming, distorted guitars and wind instruments, and prominent bass guitar.
Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly in the city of Toronto. These associated acts include Metric, Feist, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Amy Millan, and Jason Collett.
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Years was born from the wealth of music that Benchetrit had been gathering, but did not belong with his other projects. "I basically just wanted to use all of this material that I'd compiled on my hard drive," he says, "songs that got started and never finished, or that were parts of other projects and never really got off the ground. So I started trying to finish that [unfinished] record. But in the process, I kept replacing the older songs, one song at a time. About a year later, I'd replaced them all. Years was the album I was left with." [4]
Years has been described as "the best parts of Bell Orchestre, I Am Robot And Proud and The Hylozoists, and combines them into a sweeping flurry of instruments" [5] Years was recently named "record of the year" by Jude Rogers of The Guardian , and was described as "quite simply a triumph" by Paul Brown of Drowned in Sound. [6]
Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to tour with them in the fall of 2005, delaying the release of their album. Regarding finishing the album, Bell Orchestre said: "We regrouped and we did this residency at an arts center in Canada in the mountains. We actually finished [the record] there, we did a few overdubs and went home and sequenced it and mastered it."
The Hylozoists are a Canadian instrumental rock supergroup formed in 2001 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The band's name is derived from hylozoism and was started as a side project of record producer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Aucoin.
Jude Rogers is a Welsh journalist and lecturer who is a music critic for The Guardian. She also regularly writes features and articles for The Observer, New Statesman and women's magazines such as Red. Her articles have also been published by The Times and by BBC Music and she broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music. She is a senior lecturer in journalism at London Metropolitan University.
