Spacemen 3 cover

[chris harris]

I've posted about Skating Polly before. 13 & 17 yo. step-sisters who make incredible punk/indie/pop music. I've been working with them since they were 10 & 15. They were blowing me away with their great taste and creativity back then. And, they've gotten exponentially better since then. It's probably the most important music that I'll ever be involved with. Their music abilities are a little rough around the edges. But, every day smoothes those edges. I'm telling you, you definitely should keep your eyes peeled for what these girls will no doubt accomplish in the months/years to come.

Anyway, part of what makes them so great is that they have impeccable taste. I was shocked when they came in and told me that they wanted to cover Spacemen 3's Walking With Jesus. They have previously covered: M.I.A., X-Ray Spex, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and lots of other cool stuff.

The other thing I love about them is that their original songs are so incredibly well written that we rarely do much more with overdubs than just maybe doubling/thickening parts here and there. Outside of that, their songs are mostly drums/bass/vocals, drums/guitar/vocals, or drums/keyboard/vocals. The version of WWJ that they did was quite sparse. It was simple and very pretty. Just electric piano, drums, and vocal. We had talked about how a strumming acoustic guitar overdub might spice things up a bit. The girls really like my band, Depth & Current. I offered to take it to my band and attempt to fill some space with the kind of noisy, reverby stuff that we're into.

It ended up being a really fun song to cover. It looks like we'll have a chance to work with them again. I hope so. I feel like working with them makes me better. They're actually working up a cover of a song from our last album right now!

https://soundcloud.com/sqemusic/skating

[Brett Siler]

Nice! I really dig the clean guitar tone you captures. Very classic early 90's shoegaze sound.

[Electro-Voice 664]

Very cool. Love that song

[chris harris]

Thanks!

[Jeff White]

This is so great! Loving this and passing it on!

Jeff

[chris harris]

Thanks, Jeff!