This Week on Bandcamp: Casual Way, Goteki, Sportswriters, The Arts & Crafts Movement, Invalids

This Week on Bandcamp rounds up our favorite covers to hit the site in the past seven days.

After taking last week off for Thanksgiving, we’re back with a double helping of new Bandcamp covers! Download 10 new covers below for your post-gluttony workout mix.

French duo Casual Way find a nice folk-rock groove on this Depeche Mode classic. It falls somewhere between the thudding original and the haunted Cash cover, finding a perfect earworm middle ground.

This one earns a spot for sheer audacity. A Leonard Cohen song turned into a four-on-the-floor club banger? The David Guetta-style pounding works surprisingly well, though it will surely outrage Lenny purists everywhere.

I have no idea whether Alex Chilton liked the Carpenters, but if he had ever covered them with Big Star, it might have sounded a bit like this. Sportswriters apparently recorded this for a new Carpenters tribute project, but we can’t find any more info yet.

Here’s a tip for any artists who want a spot on Cover Me: record a folksy version of Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” We’ve heard a million (like this and this) and adore every one.

Thrice don’t get a lot of love from the Pitchfork set, but perhaps the technically ambitious math rock cover could help bridge the gap. It’s still fast and furious, but with quirky Battles-style guitar lines spiraling around each other that might draw in folks turned off by the emo-ish cries of the original.

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