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Serena Ryder: "The Funeral" (Band of Horses Cover) (MP3)

6:11 p.m. · April 28, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

As far as covers go, it certainly seems like the easiest way to make someone else's track your own is just to make a loud song soft and vice versa, and that's the method that Canadian singer Serena Ryder chooses for this cover of Band of Horses' "The Funeral," from that band's 2006 release, Everything All The Time. However, it's not just like Ryder could apply the same technique she uses here to a song like Danzig's "Mother." The strength of this cover is that she finds the right arrangement to take the great, outside-festival strength out of the Band of Horses track. Organ, bass, and spare drums float around the outside of the track, while Ryder's beautiful voice holds up the middle.

"The Funeral" is on a four-track covers EP that the singer is releasing to commemorate the ten year's she's spent in the music industry. The other covers on the EP include Kylie Minogue's "Slow," Jordin Sparks' "No Air," and Hank Williams' "Ramblin Man." [Stereogum]