At the beginning of May, Adem’s releasing Takes, a collection of a dozen covers and “interpretations.” The songs he chose to tackle — by Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, Yo Le Tengo, the Breeders, Low, Aphex Twin, Tortoise, PJ Harvey, etc. — were initially released between 1991 and 2001, when young Adem was still … young. (Björk covers, you say?) In this video we see the Londoner (and various close-ups of Adem, his guitar, his beard, and his balloon shirt) taking back the analog with a gorgeous, fragile and strummed take on dEUS’ “Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me).”
Keep the dream alive. Remember the original? Crunchy. Here are the others:
01 “Bedside Table” – Bedhead
02 “Oh My Lover” – PJ Harvey
03 “Slide” – Lisa Germano
04 “Loro” – Pinback – Pinback
05 “Hotellounge” – dEUS
06 “To Cure A Weakling Child” + “Boy/Girl Song” – Aphex Twin
07 “Tears Are In Your Eyes” – Yo La Tengo
08 “Starla” – Smashing Pumpkins
09 “Gamera” – Tortoise
10 “Unravel” – Björk
11 “Invisible Man” – The Breeders
12 “Laser Beam” – Low
Adem, we listened to a lot of the same things.
Takes is out 5/5 on Domino.
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There’s a new dEUS album out this week. It’s pretty great. And so is this cover of them.
Samir: Is it better than Pocket Revolution? I was really let down by that one — found it really boring, a word I never thought I’d use to describe a dEUS album.
even though i generally find pinback boring, his cover of “loro” is fantastic, the highlight of this compilation. the bedhead and tortoise tracks are decent too, but it’s mostly background starbucks material.
Stephen – I’m not sure that it’s as good as PR – so you may be disappointed. At the risk of being a Pluggy McPluggerson, I wrote about the album the other day – http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com