Pitchfork

Photo by Zach Vowell

Results certainly vary, but I always get a small charge when one contemporary band covers another. It feels risky. It takes some guts to say "This is a great song" before history has had a chance to weigh in. On this B-side from Of Montreal's limited Suffer for Fashion single, Kevin Barnes and company tackle what is arguably Fiery Furnaces' most immediately engaging number. It's one quirky and occasionally brilliant indie band meeting another, and yeah, it pretty much rules. But there's another surprise in store: during the middle eight Barnes throws in a bit from Big Audio Dynamite II's "Rush"-- the original, appropriately enough, also jumped joyously from one sample to the next-- and all of a sudden he's halfway to a three-way.

[From the Suffer for Fashion single; out now on Polyvinyl]