Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Dean & Britta & Sonic Book Cover Purple Mountains

Photo by Samantha Tyson

It's only November 6, so it's probably too early for Christmas music, but this is Christmas music done by Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom, and the subject matter is more about the weather than the holiday. Taken off their upcoming holiday album is a cover of David Berman's "Snow is Falling in Manhattan." Taken from Purple Mountain's 2019 self-titled album, the original is a laid back track perfectly suited to be covered by Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom. The cover is a bit more lush and fleshed out, and feels cheerier and possibly more Christmas-y. I wouldn't consider the Purple Mountain's original to be a holiday song, but the new version sneaks in some holiday cheer.

Dean Wareham says of the new single:

David Berman’s Purple Mountains is one of the great albums of this century. We were all shocked when he took his life soon after its release, and I recorded a demo of‘’Snow is Falling in Manhattan’ for a tribute to him. The song is now updated with a new mix and added vocals by Britta and Sonic Boom. It’s such an evocative song about a snowstorm in New York City and contains one of my favorite Berman stanzas ‘songs build little rooms in time / and housed within the song’s design / is the ghost the host has left behind’ — where it feels like Berman is talking to us from the beyond, he is both ghost and host, and I am the guest who sings his lines."

You can listen to Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom's cover of "Snow is Falling in Manhattan" below. A Peace of Us is due out November 22 on Carpark Records, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Dean & Britta, check them out on Facebook here. Sonic Boom can be found on Facebook, also.

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