CSS Covers Grizzly Bear
Because friends let friends redo their music.
CSS and Grizzly Bear are friends. When this friendship was formed I'm not sure, but it was confirmed when Grizzly Bear asked CSS to take part in their 2007 release Friend EP. Friend EP was all about reworking - the first couple of tracks were modified versions of old Grizzly Bear favorites (sans track two, "He Hit Me", which is actually a cover of a Crystals song from 1962), while the last part of the album was Grizzly Bear letting their friends have a go at various songs from the acclaimed album Yellow House.
Both CSS and Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo project) took their chance at dissecting "Knife". While Atlas Sound takes an already ominous song and makes it even more unidentifiable in tone, CSS takes a different approach, taking the once creepy "Knife" and turning it into a viable electro pop song. But would you expect anything else from CSS (whose full name is Cansei de Ser Sexy, which translates into "tired of being sexy")? With their own song titles including the likes of "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" and "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above", you have to conclude that they aren't going to make a gloomy song.
Nowhere near sounding like the same song, CSS gives a new definition for turning a song on it's head; and it appears Grizzly Bear approved of the rework by putting it on their album. Friendship is a wonderful thing.
Posted by Wes Soltis on Jun 22, 2008 @ 12:00 am
