Pitchfork

I really enjoy Evangelicals' "Skeleton Man", which we posted and talked about here last month; something about the combo of the yearning melody and the busy Technicolor production creates a nice space for dreaming. Talking to people about it, however, I've heard comments that the track is a touch too busy; some want to hear what's going on beneath all those bell-like twinkles and airy whooshes, see what the song sounds like stripped down. Well, this version by the band's tourmates Headlights, the first in a promised pair of reciprocating covers, does a nice job of laying the tune bare, re-casting it as a chiming chamber-pop tune bereft of the psychedelic trappings.

 

 

MP3:> Headlights: "Skelekton Man"

[original track on The Evening Descends; out now on Dead Oceans]