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Casiotone's Owen Ashworth (who found his cat, praise the heavens) manages to turn Paul Simon's buoyant travelogue into a painfully lonely journey from one dark bedroom corner to another on this mopey cover of "Graceland".

Forgoing all that tribal-y stuff, Ashworth instead intones at us exasperatedly from the left speaker channel over a fuzzy drum machine and some droning synth chords, hits us with a slightly jarring noise breakdown, and effectively swaps the original's bold hues for dour grays. Come to think of it, despairing, chubby Elvis might dance to this, slowly and awkwardly.

This loving cover appears alongside a Xiu Xiu remix of CFtPA's "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Yellow Shirt" and B-side "Sunday Street" on the limited edition "Graceland" 7", available now. Only 500 copies exist, so take one home with you today via Chicago's Rococo Records.