PRODUCED BY GRAMMY-WINNER IAN BRENNAN + FEATURING WILCO'S NELS CLINE, TV ON THE RADIO'S TUNDE ADEBIMPE, SLEATER-KINNEY'S CORIN TUCKER, MY BLOODY VALENTINE'S KEVIN SHIELDS + FUGAZI'S JOE LALLY For The Good Ones' new album, Rwanda, You Should Be Loved, bandleader Adrien Kazigira originally composed over forty songs. Most were meditations on his now thirteen-year-old daughter, Marie-Claire, and the life-threatening tumour that has afflicted her left eye. The recording was done live without overdubs on Adrien's farm and was imbued with the passing of producer Ian Brennan's mother during the days that they were there together as well as a former founding band member recently having succumbed to his own demons. Since they live without electricity and have had little access to devices to reproduce musical recordings, The Good Ones' vocalisation is based on the singing traditions and dialect of their local agricultural district. They utilise one-of-a-kind instruments as well, often incorporating their own farming tools as percussion. As primary songwriter Kazigira interweaves intricate harmonies with Havugimana in a style frequently referred to as "worker songs from the streets." With their rural and remote hilltop origins, the harmonic similarities to American Bluegrass vocals is often eerie. Third member, Javan Mahoro, lends additional background vocals and percussion on select songs. Beginning in 1978 when they were still children, the group's core members were first taught music by co-lead singer Janvier Havugimana's older brother, who was blind and later perished in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They formed the band as a healing process after the genocide and the original trio's membership reunited Rwanda's three tribes, with one member each from the Tutsi, Hutu, and Abatwa tribes. It was an active attempt to seek out "the good ones," after having endured and witnessed unthinkable horrors. Their music and original songs have received great global acclaim and the group has appeared on various BBC radio programs. "They create a compelling sound which is traditional yet fresh," said the BBC. They also have been publicly praised by the likes of legendary Led Zeppelin lead-singer, Robert Plant, and Grammy-winning, platinum-selling group, Mumford & Sons.