A Covers Mp3 Trilogy: Elliott Smith, Blastoids, Phosphorescent

An album’s worth of Elliott Smith outtakes and unfinished recordings from From A Basement On The Hill seems to be making its way around the series of tubes. I haven’t exactly dived into it yet because so many noteworthy albums dropped this week, but I have listened to the following Beatles cover and it is very nice. I have been a huge Elliott Smith fan for a long time, but I never realized how many cover songs he had done until doing a little investigation after hearing this.

Elliott Smith : I’ll Be Back (Beatles cover)




One of the southeast’s hottest bands right now, Murfreesboro Tennessee’s Blastoids!, hit up WonderRoot last Friday night. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it, but our new badass photographer got some sweet images we’ll post later this week. Of the many, many students of the school of Animal Collective coming out of the wood work right now, there is something special about these guys that set them apart from the rest. They just posted a very faithful cover of one of my all-time favourite AnCo tunes, giving ode to the masters. It is sure as hell better than the bajiliion terrible “My Girls” remixes floating around right now. Check it out:

Blastoids : Kids On Holiday (Animal Collective cover)

Blastoids myspace





Phosphorescent @ SXSW 2008

Phosphorescent‘s latest release, an album comprised of nothing but Willie Nelson covers, is a difficult album for me to assess. I think Willie Nelson is cool and all, but I would rarely listen to him, and I am extremely unfamiliar with his vast catalog. So I just have to take the record on face value, and while it sounds nice, I’m having what I call “The Cat Power Dilemma”. I love original Phosphorescent songs much more than I enjoy who he is covering, so it is very hard for me to get into this. But I seriously doubt he will abandon his original material like Chan Marshall has, so I’ll just defer to his artistic vision for now. Either way, To Willie is certainly worth checking out.

Phosphorescent : Can I Sleep In Your Arms (Willie Nelson cover)

Buy To Willie

Phosphorescent myspace

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