Close Your Eyes And Think Of This

Petra Haden “Armenia City In The Sky” – This is a selection from Haden’s unreleased a cappella cover of the entirety of The Who’s The Who Sell Out. Haden recorded all of the vocals by herself, reinterpreting the sound of the original’s guitars, percussion, and electronic buzzes and drones as vocal parts, resulting in a track which sounds like a psychedelic glee club. If you would like to hear more from this project, three other songs from the record are preserved in real audio as part of this episode of Irwin Chusid’s Gender Bias.

Sandra Lou “Le Banana Split”– This is a fairly straight cover of the Lio classic, but recorded in such a way as to make the intensely peppy original seem sluggish and anemic in comparison. I’ve had a lot of trouble finding information about Sandra Lou in English, so if you happen to know anything about her or this record, feel free to pass it along in the comments box. (Click here to buy it from Amazon Germany.)