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Secretly Canadian Cover Up

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By: Rustycat | in: Music |

We are not in the business of regurgitating the news, but with an event like this it’s hard to resist, and I guess some of you might have missed this one.

Secretly Canadian

As we’ve mentioned several times before, we’re big fans of the Secretly Canadian label, home of many spectacular artists such as David Vandervelde, Magnolia Electric Co. and Antony and the Johnsons.
Well, after 11 years of hard work and achievement, they’ve decided to release a compilation CD named “SC100,” due April 10. The 18-track disc is made up of the label’s artists covering one another’s songs (a digital version will also be available with 18 additional tracks).
Secretly Canadian’s co-founder, Chris Swanson, tells Billboard.com:
 ”We had a few artists we really wanted to be a part of it, but we had to have some constraints, the bands didn’t choose the songs — we married the bands to one another. We actually had each band cover two songs; that way they’d maybe choose the obvious one as well as the dark horse. We wanted it to be a double-disc, but we thought that’d be too intense, so the digital version will be twice as long.”

Here is the track list for “SC100,” with original artist in parentheses:

“See(ing) Double,” Nikki Sudden (June Panic)
“The Last Bandit,” Songs: Ohia (Nikki Sudden)
“Structure: Necessity,” Suzanne Langille (Songs: Ohia)
“The Escape,” Early Day Miners (Suzanne Langille and Loren MazzaCane Connors)
“Upstate,” Damien Jurado (Early Day Miners)
“Abeline,” Dave Fischoff (Damien Jurado)
“Propaganda for a Comic,” Danielson (Dave Fischoff)
“Fruitful Weekend,” June Panic (Danielson)
“Soft Evenings,” Ativin (Marmoset)
“Lungs for the Race,” Swearing At Motorists (Havergal)
“Riding and Romaing,” Havergal (Ativin)
“The Real Thing,” Racebannon (Swearing At Motorists)
“Clubber Lang,” Cornelius Boots (Racebannon)
“We’re All Gonna Die,” Jens Lekman (Scout Niblett)
“Sky Phenomenon,” Marmoset (Jens Lekman)
“40 Years of Our Family,” the Impossible Shapes (Japonize Elephants)
“Birds,” Panoply Academy (the Impossible Shapes)
“Highlight and Marginalia,” Japonize Elephants (Panoply Academy)

Read more on:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003538423.

Some quick listens to the Secretly Canadian favs:

Nikki Sudden - Seven Miles

Normanoak - Jellyfish Ram

The Earlies - No Love In Your Heart

David Vandervelde - Jacket


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Posted on January 30, 2007

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