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August 28, 2009

Taken By Trees Covers Animal Collective's "My Girls"

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We're tired of the achingly sincere amateurs and questionable remixes. Where's an indie contemporary's premature spin on the ninth best song of the decade? Some of us have blogs to blog! Enter "Young Folks"/ex-Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman aka Taken By Trees. Her terrific, foreign born East Of Eden includes "My Boys," a jaunty and vaguely tropical take on Merriweather's celebrated single that messes around with gender roles. Everyone needs adobe slabs.

Taken By Trees - "Watch The Waves" (MP3)

East Of Eden is out 9/8 via Rough Trade.

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me gusta

Posted by: bananafana feux profile link at 08/28/09 2:03 PM  | Reply
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Wow! I haven't heard a cover this good since St. V covered Nico.

Posted by: abby r. profile link at 08/28/09 2:09 PM  | Reply
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glook, she laced it quite lovely

Posted by: Sound Verite at 08/28/09 2:16 PM  | Reply
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It's actually a good song now!

Posted by: John at 08/28/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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if only she could have taken the place of AC at the bandshell a few weeks back...i would have left there much, much happier.

Posted by: rc at 08/28/09 4:20 PM  | Reply
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no heart. like some computer program scanned the original and there's a robot singing it now.

Posted by: erik at 08/28/09 4:33 PM  | Reply
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Wow, this is going to really polarize people.

Posted by: Michael at 08/28/09 4:47 PM  | Reply
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There was a song under there after all.

Posted by: SubSickAlien profile link at 08/28/09 8:32 PM  | Reply
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did anyone notice any.. give me, your eyes, i need, sunshine.

Posted by: faas at 08/28/09 8:33 PM  | Reply
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yeah dude i totally picked that up too. gotta love that subtle krug influence.

Posted by: dave  in reply to faas's comment at 08/29/09 1:35 PM  | Reply
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YES!
First thing i heard.

Posted by: joel.wood55 profile link  in reply to faas's comment at 08/30/09 9:59 PM  | Reply
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No me gusta.

Pretty boring and unnecessary.

Posted by: d33r profile link at 08/29/09 4:07 PM  | Reply
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it's adobe slats! weeeeeee

Posted by: ontheplains at 08/29/09 11:23 PM  | Reply
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this is great! it's had to cover Animal Collective

Posted by: Stephanie profile link at 08/30/09 2:39 AM  | Reply
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This is amazing. All of the elements of this song are perfect!

Posted by: Leigh profile link at 08/30/09 4:07 PM  | Reply
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I do believe i hear a Wolf Parade's I'll Believe in Anything guitar riff around the :49 mark

Posted by: Joel at 08/30/09 4:24 PM  | Reply
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Appearing in a Target commercial in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Jordan at 08/31/09 1:53 AM  | Reply
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awsome.

Posted by: Sergio at 08/31/09 11:16 AM  | Reply
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Pure genius reworked from slightly over-hyped but nevertheless geniusosity

Posted by: Kevin D'Souza at 09/01/09 3:52 AM  | Reply
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Stop complaining about AC's My Girls. It is a good song, even if it is slightly overhyped to the point of insanity. Though I do like this version better, it's catchier than the original.

Posted by: st.sebastion profile link at 09/01/09 5:08 PM  | Reply
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No whistling?

5/10

Posted by: zxcvb at 09/02/09 12:19 AM  | Reply
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i finally want to listen to the story this song wants to tell. more appetizing than most of Merriweather.

Posted by: Morgan at 09/02/09 12:24 AM  | Reply
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Great!!
Here in comes, the generic search format of Uploaded.TV that helps you to display your talents be it singing, dancing, or making movies to the world on real TV! Just, shoot your performance video and upload it in Uploaded.TV. Your video will appear on real TV, all over the world!

Posted by: simran at 09/02/09 9:35 AM  | Reply
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No adobe slabs for you, simran.

Posted by: book  in reply to simran's comment at 09/03/09 7:52 PM  | Reply
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Did anyone else notice " Give me, your eyes, I need, sunshine"?

Posted by: I Like A Skinny Tie profile link at 09/03/09 9:23 PM  | Reply
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Something about this song makes me want a Coca-Cola

Posted by: Matthew Wilder profile link at 09/29/09 10:38 AM  | Reply
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