Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Flickering fire like saltwater in my eyes

I'm totally infatuated with acoustic covers of songs, I just think its is so interesting to see how songs are re-interpretted into a smoother sound. I was reminded of a particular cover the other night while driving with a few friends. It was a cover of the newly minted indie-classic "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit. The song is covered by a band called Run Toto Run (not to be confused with the 80's rock band, Toto famous for the song "Africa").

The song makes prominent use of what sounds like a glockenspiel and fiddles (which sound amazing under these circumstances). I can't really pass too much judgement on a cover live this (it is pretty hard to live up to Passion Pit in terms of this song). However, as far as covers go this one sounds incredibly good.


-S

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