I've been hearing a lot of good covers lately. A lot. And that makes it hard to pick one to throw into the lineup, though later on in the summer I intend to start listing off electropop covers as often as I can. But I digress. Enter Superhumanoids. I'm a fan of the quartet's "Malta" and nearly every remix of it. Now they're back, and with a pop cover of the Ramones classic "I Wanna Be Sedated." Who knew punk could be dreamy? I knew all along, of course.
Superhumanoids' "I Wanna Be Sedated" begins with breaths of the string section as those lovely pop vocals begin twenty twenty twenty-four hours ago, I wanna be sedated... This is how you do a cover without sounding like you're doing a cover. Though I usually condone keeping some flavor of the original, Superhumanoids rewrites history and causes the thought of the Ramones to momentarily slip from your mind. Their cover is also super-eerie to have playing as the sky darkens with thunderclouds on a Saturday morning. So why not listen before the clouds part?
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