Wednesday 30 March 2011

Song Of The Day 30/03/2011: Seapony - Emma's House

Today's SOTD is a lovely cover of the Field Mice by Seapony, a chilled-out fuzz-twee band in the same vein as a million other bands around at the moment. It really has got to the stage where the bands really start to merge into each other - I'd be really hard-pressed to differentiate between a lot of them. Seapony were always a bit of a stand-out band, though, with their debut single 'Dreaming' being one of the best tracks to emerge from this kind of fuzz recently, and this latest release holds up to the expectation.

It's from a compilation released on Bandcamp to celebrate the twentieth birthday of 'Magic, Revue Pop Moderne', a French music magazine, and is currently available to download free. There's some really interesting stuff on there, but I think this is my favourite track. The original song is one of the quintessential Sarah tracks, the title track on the debut EP of their most well-known band, yet somehow doesn't sound quite like the stereotypical Sarah release, with a slight edge that a lot of stuff released on that label just lacked. The cover is fairly faithful to the original, but ever so slightly more powerful and driving, which I think works well.


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