Deep Covers

dead raven choir - 'first we take manhattan'
It doesn't get any grimmer than this and when i say grim i mean grimmer than Dizzee's grimmest hour, ever. Maybe Simon R.'s grime needs to be redefined, maybe this is what grime should sound like. Maybe Darkthrone should be called the main grime family instead of Roll Deep. Or maybe not, doesn't matter in the end cos when Dead Raven Choir light up their acoustic flame it all goes up in smoke anyway. This cover of Leonard Cohen's classic gets smothered in acoustic rumblings (the group insists they only used acoustic instruments on their insanely dark album, Sturmfuckinglieder) while the singer (Polish, the whole band is) groans with a deep Eastern European accent about first taking Manhattan and then Berlin. Next to him, Cohen sounds like a twee boyscout.

spacemen 3 - 'starship'
Spacemen took a lot of shit during their first years and it only started to come together for them commercially when they imploded on personal levels. The great sonic cues they got from bands like MC5 and Stooges were their driving force, majestic swells of feedback and fx building up to a thick groove that just drones on and on and on and on. On their version of MC5's 'Starship' they loose all the gospel baggage and let it rip for a full on five minutes.

my bloody valentine - 'map ref 41°n 93°w'
For Wire, 'Map Ref 41°N 93°W' was an entrance into pop territory, for Kevin Shields it was just another challenging plate of sounds to get off on. Layering the distorion thickley over the staccato postpunkmelodies it transforms in a transcendent piece of postpunk fantasy, a bonding of the miraculous late '70's postpunk with the sophisticated New Romantic aura and the thick fog of his shoegaze kingdom.

nu day

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