The Cover Up – A Selection of Dreamy Cover Songs

Musicians covering each other's work has been as long standing a staple in music culture as substance abuse and misogyny. While the motivation to do so is often the child of an unholy marriage between lazy opportunism and musical sacrilege, in worthy hands it can be the most respectful of endeavors. With emphasis on the latter, this selection has me taking the most dreamy cover songs I know and creating an almost ambient soundscape of distilled nostalgia.

Track List

Pale Blue – Thirteen (Big Star)

Chromatics – Blue Moon (Richard Rogers)

Best Fern – Take On Me (A-Ha)

How To Dress Well – Clowne Town

Carla Dal Forno – Summertime Sadness

Gazelle Twin (The Wire)

Portishead – SOS (ABBA)

Aurora – Teardrop (Massive Attack)

Brian Eno – I’m Set Free

Moses Sumney – O Superman (Laurie Anderson)

Jon Hopkins and Hayden Thorpe – Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – By Your Side (Sade)

King Krule – Yesterday (Beatles)

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra – Condition of the Heart (Prince)

Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)

Taken By Trees – Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns n’ Roses)

Antony and the Johnsons – Candy Says (Velvet Underground)