The beauty of covers is that you have bands tackle covers that wouldn’t make sense at first glance, but all it takes is one listen to the cover to see otherwise. Bands can take what they love about the original song and incorporate their own feel and something that they hear differently, that makes it a different entity entirely.
Phosphorescent wouldn’t be your first guess as to someone who would cover Vampire Weekend, but with the recent direction that they discovered on their new album Modern Vampires Of The City, it makes a lot more sense than you think.
They performed the cover while visiting radio station KCSN over at California State University. It’s an incredible cover.
Take a listen below.
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