The upcoming Sweetheart 2014 compilation brings together top alternative musicians covering their favorite love songs. We’ve already heard the album’s first three tracks: Jim James doing Bob Marley’s “Turn Your Lights Down Low,” Vampire Weekend’s version of Andrea Bocelli’s “Con Te Partiró,” and Beck’s John Lennon cover “Love.” Now comes one of the deeper cuts, Fiona Apple and her sister Maude Maggart covering “I’m In The Middle Of A Riddle,” originally written by the Austrian film composer Anton Karas in 1949 and performed by Karas and Kay Armen in 1950. This is definitely the kind of song I can imagine Fiona Apple listening to in her spare time, all old-timey harmonies set to an easygoing waltz that feels like coy flirtation. Hear her and Maggart do the tune justice below.

(via The Wall Street Journal)

Sweetheart 2014 is out 2/4/14 via Hear Music/Concord Music Group. Here’s the tracklist:

01 Jim James – “Turn Your Lights Down Low” (Bob Marley cover)
02 Vampire Weekend – “Con Te Partirò” (Inspired by the Andrea Bocelli recording)
03 Beck – “Love” (John Lennon cover)
04 Phosphorescent – “Tomorrow Is A Long Time” (Bob Dylan cover)
05 The Head and the Heart – “Don’t Forget Me” (Harry Nilsson cover)
06 Valerie June – “Happy or Lonesome” (the Carter Family cover)
07 Bahamas – “Always on My Mind” (Willie Nelson cover)
08 Thao – “If You Were Mine” (Ray Charles cover)
09 Ben Harper – “Fade Into You” (Mazzy Star cover)
10 Fiona Apple – “I’m In The Middle of a Riddle” (Anton Karas cover)
11 Brandi Carlile – “The Chain” (Fleetwood Mac cover)
12 Blake Mills – “I Hope” (Bobby Charles cover)
13 Sharon Jones – “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” (Stevie Wonder cover)