If It's Too Loud...

Back in March, we wrote about a split EP from Minnesota's Fury Things and Brilliant Beast. Now Fury Things are back with a new EP, Saskatchewan EP , which especially got our attention for featuring a cover of Hüsker Dü's classic "New Day Rising." Since we love covers, bands from Minnesota, and Hüsker Dü here, we kind of need to make sure you all know about it. The cover stays completely true to the original, which makes me wonder if I would have preferred Fury Things to try to make it their own or not. Currently I can't decide. Saskatchewan EP is available as a free download. Head on over to Fury Things' Bandcamp to get your copy. You can listen to their cover of "New Day Rising" below.

Last year we wrote about the great Minneapolis shoegaze band Brilliant Beast. Last week they released a split EP with fellow Minnesota natives Fury Things, and it's a fantastic pairing. For their 2 songs, Fury Things wrote the songs on a Friday and recorded on Sunday. "Some Things" was recorded in just one take, which gives it this perfect feel of urgency and fun. Their tracks don't feel like Minnesota, but are what shoegaze would sound like if it was created by indie rock loving southern Californians. It's just the finest droney power pop you can imagine. Brilliant Beast are just the slightest opposite of the same coin as Fury Things. "No Fate" the extreme poppy end of the shoegaze spectrum, but they definitely rely more on the spacey, fuzzed out sounds of the genre, but with a strong 90s alternapop base. "Heaven" is a droned out as can be power ballad, the kind that would be a hit at a prom if high school kids had access to better drugs....