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Sounds like:
Pavement,
Built to Spill,
Beabadoobee
By
Laurent Chavannes
on
Sep 29, 2023
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The risk of releasing a cover of a popular song and hearing the phrase “not as good as the original” is all too real for any artist who is daring enough. On Friday, September 22nd, Soccer Mommy’s Sophia Allison too...
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2

Sounds like:
Kississipi,
Slow Pulp,
Palehound
By
Mikky George
on
Apr 29, 2023
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Maps RedrawnSamia revisits an alt-rock favourite, gives it its dues and redesigns a few locations."Maps" redesigned by Samia is what happens when a classic map, layered with its history, detail, and narrative has s...
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3

Sounds like:
Sleeping at Last,
Yoke Lore,
Novo Amor
By
Mikky George
on
Apr 9, 2023
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Vancouver Sleep Clinic has redesigned an alt-pop staple into something ethereal, dreamy and downright gorgeous.The art of covers is in itself a whole thing ( I've spoken about this many times ), but the ability to ...
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4

Sounds like:
Grizzly Bear,
Arcade Fire,
Slow Club,
Angus & Julia Stone
By
Jami Selikow
on
Feb 25, 2022
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Gorgeous honey vocals take center stage in The Daydream Club's cover of The Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year." In the opening line, there's a slight bluesy undertone that piques my interest right out the starting gate, later to be maintained by stando...
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5

By
Nara Schneider
on
Oct 14, 2021
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Since releasing her third studio album earlier this year, Jilian Medford (also known as IAN SWEET) put out two singles, one of them being a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow."With a gl...
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6

Sounds like:
Mild Minds,
bearcubs
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Aug 19, 2020
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I'm not one for covers. Not at all, but this one is different. It's the Olympic triple axel of covers. It's the 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth of covers. It's the finishing the last bit ...
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7

Sounds like:
Haley Heynderickx,
Julien Baker,
Lucy Dacus
By
Morgan Hume
on
Apr 20, 2020
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Molly Burch is a Texas-based musician known for writing her own tunes, but her take on Ariana Grande's song, “needy,'' is just as original. Instead of sky-high notes over a snappy beat, Burch strips the song back w...
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8

Sounds like:
Shintaro Sakamoto,
Tatsuro Yamashita
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Aug 24, 2018
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Off the bat critique here, it's too short. That's a backhanded compliment though. It begs the question, would an entire Mac DeMarco EP in Japanese do well?
Yes it would, and the artwork looks like an orgy. The black squiggle is clearly giving the ye...
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