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Young Man – Just A Growin’

Young Man – Heart of Chambes (Beach House cover)

Young Man is 20-year-old Colin Caulfield, he of YouTube cover versions fame, previously praised by Bradford Cox for his take on Rainwater Cassette Exchange and featured here for his version of Grizzly Bear’s ‘While You Wait For The Others’. Well, since then Caulfield has been working on an EP entitled Boy in his Chicago bedroom and even has a gig lined up at one of my favourite venues, La Fleche D’Or in Paris, in two weeks. Hopefully more good stuff is still to come… Continue Reading »

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Serena Ryder & The Beauties – The Funeral (Band Of Horses Cover)

This well-disguised cover goes some way to trump the original. It’s only the hook, sinking into you unexpectedly, that drags you back to Band of Horses. It much sadder, though – so you have been warned. Serena Ryder is a Canadian songwriter who has also worked with Great Lake Swimmers, most recently on Lost Channels. Continue Reading »

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YouTube is full of well-intended but utlimately awful-sounding cover versions by overzealous fans. This intrumental take on AC’s ‘Bluish’ was inspired by someone else’s particularly cringe-worthy attempt and it does what all good covers should do: accentuate the best parts of the original in a way that will make you appreciate it differently.

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Following on from their take on Bonnie Prince Billy, Fanfarlo seem to be doing a series of cover versions recorded in Cath’s living room. This month it’s an unexpected tip of the hat towards the Smashing Pumpkins.

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This is a Grizzly Bear cover version from the same “mysterious YouTuber” that Bradford Cox singled out for praise recently on his blog after discovering a cover of Rainwater Cassette Exchange. Like the other mysterious YouTube renditions of Two Weeks I posted in February, this guy has also covered Animal Collective and Panda Bear – as well as Beach House, Bon Iver and some original recordings. Check them all out, they’re well worth a listen on the headphones. If you keep an eye on the sidebar of related videos, you can go on a never ending trail of bedroom cover versions of similar tracks – like Deep Blue Sea and Turtle Island.

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