What you want

I initially was going to write about the psychedelic dream pop band, The Church. About how their music was great, ethereal, etc...Then, as I was listening to new music on KVRX, I was completely stunned by a jaw dropping cello and slide guitar cover of "What you want". It was Japancakes covering My Bloody Valentine! Upon further research, I came to learn that the latest Japancakes record is a song for song cover of My Bloody Valentine's 1991 opus "Loveless". I was immediately overwhemed after listening to the entire album. Japancakes have used beauty, skill, and space to recreate one of the the most dazzling, hazy, dense albums in rock music, and they somehow completely disregard a crucial element that made "Loveless" brilliant, feedback. Japancakes did not use any feedback! Instead, by stripping the music to it's essential parts and using instruments often associated with country/singer songwriter music they present the songs as a pastoral homage to lush Americana...and in my opinion, they did a great job!

Japancakes "What you want" 2007
My Bloody Valentine "What you want" 1991
zip file with both tracks here.

Buy Japancakes "Loveless" [Darla Records] here.
Japancakes @ myspace listen to the Cocteau Twins cover
Offical Site


My Bloody Valentine "What you want"


--Mr. Mark