Weaves cover The Beatles’ "Help!"
WEAVES COVER THE BEATLES – “HELP!” PREMIERED TODAY BY STEREOGUM
UK TOUR WITH FELLOW TORONTO BAND DILLY DALLY NEXT MONTH
After spending the summer on the road in support of their critically-acclaimed debut LP (Weaves is out now on Memphis Industries), Weaves have shared a cover of The Beatles’ “Help!” today via Stereogum.
The band are currently in the middle of their first North American headline run, but managed to find a moment to record this cover during a brief period of down time in Toronto between tours in July.
“We recorded this when I was feeling a little bit of heartbreak and just stuck in a slump and the song really spoke to me.” says Weaves’ vocalist Jasmyn Burke. “I asked Morgan if he’d be into trying to cover it so we spent a couple hours one day recording it in his little spare room studio. Like most people we love the Beatles, and I felt like those lyrics were living inside of me at the time so I wanted to try and personalise it. It was a really fun experience and an interesting experiment.”
The Toronto four-piece return to Europe this Autumn with Dilly Dally for more unhinged guitar based fun having wowed crowds up and down Brexit Britain earlier this Summer. Both band play End Of The Road Festival ahead of a full UK tour together, culminating in a show at The Scala, London on 22nd September.
Weaves UK tour with Dilly Dally
02 Sept – Salisbury, End of the Road Festival
17 Sept – Nottingham, Bodega
18 Sept – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
19 Sept – Manchester, The Soup Kitchen
20 Sept – Cardiff, The Globe
21 Sept – Bristol, The Exchange
22 Sept – London, Scala
You also now watch Weaves performing four songs live on Low Four, the new super-HD live music video platform based at Manchester’s historic Old Granada Studios.
Low Four session
About Weaves
Weaves have been working on the album for almost as long as they have been a band, tracking with Leon Taheny (Dilly Dally, Owen Pallett,Austra) in sessions that span most of the last two years. Mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Melvins, At The Drive In) and mastered by John Greenham (Death Grips, Sky Ferreira), the result is an album that traverses the band’s history, exploring every facet of their always adventurous approach to pop music and leaving no idea unexplored. Filled beyond bursting with hooks and possibilities, it’s the sound of a band propelled forward by the thrill of discovering the limits of their sound and gleefully pushing past them.
Praise for Weaves
“The whole band is simply a sonic treat” – NPR
“one of the debuts of the year” – Sunday Times Breaking Act
“The construction is cerebral, but the songs come across as uproarious” – NY Times
“”One More” is a harebrained avalanche of guitars that intensify with every new part of the song, racing and pinging and chugging, like a Rhys Chatham-style orchestra involving tUnE-yArDs, Mica Levi, Speedy Ortiz, the B-52’s, and Pat Jordache” – Pitchfork
“It’s effervescent with an edge, like early-90s US alt rock dipped in sugar: bubblegrunge, Nirvana playing Looney Tunes” – The Guardian New Band of the Week
“Postpunk hooks, surf-pop jangle and manic soul to charm stoned basement punks and genre-hating oddballs alike.” – NME
Weaves’ self-titled LP is out now on Memphis Industries in the UK and the rest of the World, with the exception of in the US and Canada (where it is available through Kanine and Buzz, respectively).
Full album stream (via i-D) https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/premiere-stream-weaves-wild-debut-album-exclusively-on-i-d
“Coo Coo” https://soundcloud.com/weavesmusic/weaves-coo-coo-1
“One More” video https://youtu.be/Rt_0Zui8IIQ
“Candy” https://soundcloud.com/weavesmusic/weaves-candy/
“One More” https://soundcloud.com/weavesmusic/one-more/
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