Deerhoof have released a dizzying new covers album called Love-Lore that finds the art-rock band covering 43 songs over the course of 35 minutes. The album is available now as a free download over on Deerhoof’s website. It comes on the heels of the band’s latest original album, Future Teenage Cave Artists, which came out in May. They previously reimagined popular culture in their own unique way on 2018’s Deerhoof Plays The Music Of The Shining.
Love-Lore features renditions of songs by Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Laurie Anderson, Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, the Police, Sun Ra, Parliament, John Williams, the Beach Boys, Voivod, Silver Apples, Kraftwerk, the B-52s, Dionne Warwick, and many more, and they’re all mangled together like a more analog Girl Talk.
Check out the album and a list of all the songs covered below.
Here’s the tracklist:
ORNETTE COLEMAN • IN ALL LANGUAGES
JOHN DONALD ROBB • EXCERPT FROM SPATIAL SERENADE
VOIVOD • MACROSOLUTIONS TO MEGAPROBLEMS
EARL KIM • EARTHLIGHT
STU PHILLIPS • KNIGHT RIDER
RAYMOND SCOTT • OHIO BELL
MAURICIO KAGEL • MUSIC FOR RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENTS
EDDIE GRANT • ELECTRIC AVENUE
GARY NUMAN • CARS
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN • KONTAKTE
THE BEACH BOYS • WONDERFUL
GERALD FRIED • STAR TREK: BALANCE OF TERROR
PAULINE OLIVEROS • ALL FOURS
PAUL WILLIAMS • RAINBOW CONNECTION
JAMES TENNEY • FOR ANN (RISING)
SILVER APPLES • OSCILLATIONS
KRAFTWERK • WE ARE THE ROBOTS
JOHN WILLIAMS • CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
THE POLICE • DRIVEN TO TEARS
MORTON FELDMAN • PATTERNS IN A CHROMATIC FIELD
SUN RA • THEY DWELL ON OTHER PLANES
PARLIAMENT • UNFUNKY UFO
ASHA PUTHLI • SPACE TALK
ENNIO MORRICONE • OTTAVE COMANDAMENTO: CORRI VELOCE
MILTON BABBITT • HOMILY FOR SNARE DRUM
THE B52S • SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA • MECHANICAL ACCORDION
VINICIUS DE MORAES / BADEN POWELL • O ASTRONAUTA
DIONNE WARWICK • DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE?
DAVID GRAEBER • OF FLYING CARS AND THE DECLINING RATE OF PROFIT
DEREK BAILEY • IMPROVISATION
WILLIAM HANNA / HOYT CURTIN • THE JETSONS
ANTHONY BRAXTON • C-M=B05
GYORGY KURTAG • SHADOWS FOR CONTRABASS SOLO
ERIC SIDAY • THE PERKING COFFEE POT
IGOR STRAVINSKY • VARIATIONS ALDOUS HUXLEY IN MEMORIAM
CAETANO VELOSO • PULSAR
LUIGI NONO • UNO ESPRESSIONE
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI • THRENODY FOR THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA
JOHN CAGE • EMPTY WORDS
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND • ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES
LAURIE ANDERSON • EXAMPLE #22
Love-Lore is available now on Deerhoof’s website via Joyful Noise Recordings. A limited edition poster of the artwork, which was done by the band’s Satomi Matsuzaki, is also up for order.
