Self Released (2019)
In case you haven't been paying attention, The Pretty Flowers released not only one of the best records of 2018, but one of the best records of the last five years when they put out Why Trains Crash. If you don't already have that album, stop what you are doing and go buy it immediately. Once you are back we can discuss their newest release, an eight song CD of covers they've released themselves.
The Golden Beat Sessions has The Pretty Flowers and their take on songs by groups as diverse as The Wipers, Teenage Fanclub, Thin Lizzy and Warren Zevon. While the source material is pretty diverse, once they are run through the Pretty Flowers filter, they come out the other side feeling like a complete, congruous album. In fact, you could probably stick just about any one of these songs into the middle of Why Trains Crash and I don't think I'd bat an eyelash at it. Rather than serve up carbon copies of the originals, Pretty Flowers make these songs their own.
While I'm not a huge fan of EPs at the best of times, when you are doing a project like this of all cover songs, I'm going to have a different opinion than if you served up an EP of original songs. Now, while I think that something like this is just begging to be released as a 10", I take solace in the fact that there's at least a CD version and I didn't have to buy a cassette.
The Pretty Flowers - Golden Beat Sessions:
https://theprettyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/golden-beat-sessions
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