Bills & Aches & Blues 2LP

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Description

Coming July 23, 2021 pre-order your copy today! Orders with both pre-order and in stock items will have all in stock items shipped immediately!

In Celebration Of 4AD's 40th Anniversary!
Covers Of The Pixies, The Birthday Party, Deerhunter, Grimes, Tim Buckley, Bon Iver & More!
Performances By The Breeders, Tune-Yards, Future Islands, Dry Cleaning & More!

Bills & Aches & Blues will be released on 2nd April digitally, with standard vinyl and CD editions following on 23rd July and a deluxe vinyl box set later this year. The first 12 months' profits from Bills & Aches & Blues will be donated to The Harmony Project, a Los Angeles-based after-school program for children from communities and schools that lack equitable access to studying the arts or music.

Bills & Aches & Blues' 18 recordings contain fascinating connections between artist and track. The earliest song chosen (by U.S. Girls) is The Birthday Party's "Junkyard", from 1981; the most recent are the two Grimes covers ("Genesis" and "Oblivion", respectively by Spencer. and Dry Cleaning) from 2012. Suitably, for the one band that bridges 4AD past and present, The Breeders are all over Bills & Aches & Blues. They're covered three times - "Cannonball" by Tune-Yards, "Mountain Battles" by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and "Off You" by Big Thief, whilst The Breeders cover "The Dirt Eaters" by their '90s contemporaries His Name Is Alive.

Landmark songs such as "Cannonball", "Song To The Siren" and Pixies' "Where is My Mind?", will feel comfortable to casual fans, however by contrast, much joy can be found in the album's surprise choices, such as Air Miami's "Seabird" and the Lush B-side "Sunbathing", covered respectively by new signings Maria Somerville and Jenny Hval.

Bills & Aches & Blues is named, arguably (as Elizabeth Fraser never published the lyrics) after the opening line of Cocteau Twins "Cherry-Coloured Funk". Perhaps too unique and uncoverable in their own right, their legendary take on Tim Buckley's "Song To The Siren", under the name This Mortal Coil (along with Buckley's pre-Starsailor acoustic version) informs SOHN's cover.

Some tracks unearth hitherto hidden shared DNA, such as Future Islands' and Colourbox's "The Moon Is Blue"; other tracks are more akin to reinvention. Aldous Harding distills the melodic essence of Deerhunter's "Revival" and recasts it in her own uncanny image. U.S. Girls' future-disco "Junkyard" and Bing & Ruth's neo-classical instrumental "Gigantic" are even more radical interpretations. Leading off the album, Tkay Maidza brings both her Art Rap and R&B game, but also an unexpected '80s synth pop template, to Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?", a perfect title for these chaotic times.

Features

Double Vinyl LP
First 12 Months' Profits Donated to The Harmony Project

Selections

Tkay Maidza - Where Is My Mind? (Pixies)
U.S. Girls - Junkyard (The Birthday Party)
Aldous Harding - Revival (Deerhunter)
The Breeders - The Dirt Eaters (His Name Is Alive)
Maria Somerville- Seabird (Air Miami)
Tune-Yards - Cannonball (The Breeders)
Spencer. - Genesis (Grimes)
Helado Negro - Futurism (Deerhunter)
Efterklang - Postal (Piano Magic)
Bing and Ruth - Gigantic (Pixies)
Future Islands - The Moon Is Blue (Colourbox)
Jenny Hval - Sunbathing (Lush)
Dry Cleaning - Oblivion (Grimes)
Bradford Cox - Mountain Battles (The Breeders)
SOHN - Song To The Siren (Tim Buckley)
Becky and The Birds - The Wolves Act I and II (Bon Iver)
Ex:Re - Misery Is a Butterfly (Blonde Redhead)
Big Thief - Off You (The Breeders)