If It's Too Loud...

For many of us, The Sundays are a legendary band. Their 1990 song "Here's Where the Story Ends" was quite formative and remains beloved. While the original would be what we now call dream pop, Kelly Duplex have taken a crack at the song and reinvented it. The New Orleans band take on the song as an alt-rock anthem. The song can't help but have a dreamy quality, and Kelly Duplex rely on that, but they fuzz out the guitars more and add crashing drums to their version. This cover coiuld never truly be considered hard rock, but compared to the original this one is practically blistering. They kept the beauty intact, though, making this a cover you simply need to hear. You can watch the video for Kelly Duplex's version of "Here's Where the Story Ends" below. It will be included on their self-titled album which is due out February 12 on Strange Daisy Records. You can pre-order a copy via Bandcamp . For more on Kelly Duplex, check them out on Facebook .

Every now and again we come across a new band that with just one single, we know we're going to become obsessed. The song is just so strong that we immediately drop everything and fall into a wormhole for that band. The latest is Kelly Duplex. The New Orleans band have issued a new single, "Shreveport." It's just three and a half minutes, but Kelly Duplex cram a career's worth of music into that time. It's a heavily 90's indie rock influenced track, and sounds like if you combined Archers of Loaf with Weezer (90's Weezer, I should specify...) The song is frantic at times, melancholy at others. But the entire thing is obsession worthy. Bandleader Shane Avrard says of the new song: " Shreveport  is an examination of unexpected loss and how we carry it as an un-shareable weight for (what seems like) an endless amount of time- falling into the hindsight trap of feeling that we should have seen the unexpected as an inevitability. It’s about the pieces ...