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)."
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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.
