New Fleetwood Mac tribute album to be released September 14

[michelej1]

Chart Attack
http://www.chartattack.com/listen/20...ood-mac-cover/

Sisters of the Moon, July 24, 2012 Craig Wedren

Just Tell Me That You Want Me, the upcoming tribute album to Fleetwood Mac, has an impressive roster (including Lykke Li’s haunting cover of “Silver Springs”), but if you are the biggest mega-fan in the world of the most beautiful indie-godess, you’ve been probably holding your breath waiting desperately for St. Vincent’s contribution. Time to breathe. Bringing an ominous fuzzy razor edge to “Sisters of the Moon,” Annie Clark and Craig Wedren (of Shudder to Think and Baby) turn the Stevie Nicks penned track into lavish claustrophobia. Produced by TV on the Radio’s David Sitek, Wedren leads the track with some soft cooing, while Annie Clark provides warbled vocals in the latter half of the song and presumably, the distorted crash of a guitar solo that ends the dark affair.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Chart Attack
http://www.chartattack.com/listen/20...ood-mac-cover/

Wow! This is really very good!!!(SOTM)

[michelej1]

[Well, it's not a Nicks tribute. ]

Hold Me

A. V. Club
http://www.avclub.com/articles/av-cl...leetwoo,83027/

Over the past few months, the Internet has been barraged with cuts off Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a new Fleetwood Mac tribute album featuring some of today’s indie darlings like St. Vincent, Antony, Best Coast, and The Kills. Today, The A.V. Club gets in on the track pile-on with our exclusive download off the record, Haim’s “Hold Me.” The California-based sister trio’s take on classic Mac is trippy, harmonic, and a little out-there, just like all good Nicks tributes should be.

Prefixmag
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/haim/...c-cover/67513/

The heavily-promoted Fleetwood Mac covers album Just Tell Me That You Want Me comes out August 14, and the digital version includes a bonus cut from another indie band. The California sister trio HAIM tackles "Hold Me," off Mac's 1982 album Mirage.

The original was co-written by Christine McVie about her troubled relationship with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. In HAIM's hands, the ballad turns smokier, as compared with Lindsey Buckingham's take.

[WeepingWall]

I enjoyed that one more than many of the others. It was almost like they did a Tusk interpretation of a Mirage song.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by WeepingWall

I enjoyed that one more than many of the others. It was almost like they did a Tusk interpretation of a Mirage song.

Spectacular cover of Hold Me by HAIM (totally unknown for me). This Will not be on THE cd?? Only à digital bonustrack? Ridiculous!! If there is one cover on this album that beats the original, it's this one!

You described it perfectly, WeepingWall. It sounds like if lindsey was left alone with it in his bathrooms during the preparation of his Tusktracks.

[britt0308]

If I weren't already recently obsessed w L.A. sister band Haim..hold me would catch my attention!!! I LOVE this cover. Deserved to be more than a bonus track.

Check them out..all reviews pen them as a FMac/TLC sounding band. And all of the girls love FM. They've worked w Jackson Browne, Blake mills, Dawes, Benmont tench and jonathon Wilson as of late. Legit!

[michelej1]

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BY GENE TRIPLETT Entertainment EditorStaff Writer | August 3, 2012 0

ROCK

Various Artists ‘Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac’ (Hear Music)

Fleetwood Mac has been through many phases over the years, evolving from a bruising British blues-rock bunch in the late ’60s to a slick pop-rock hit-making ensemble of the ’70s and early ’80s, and “Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac” gathers a lineup of artists as eclectic as the storied band’s songbook, all putting their own stylistic stamps on hits and album tracks alike for this excellent all-star cover album.

And when it all shakes out, gypsy seductress Stevie Nicks is the most-favored song scribe of all the composers who’ve come and gone, covered on 10 of the 17 tracks, with founding guitarist Peter Green running a distant second.

The best of the Nicks numbers is model-turned-singer-songwriter Karen Elson’s psych-blues revamping of “Gold Dust Woman,” set against a spacey background of acoustic slide guitar, electronic beats and synthesized white noise supplied by Beck Hansen. Antony’s dramatic warble and Rob Moose’s folky acoustic guitar bring wistfulness and wonder to Nicks’ melancholic “Landslide,” Shudder To Think’s Craig Wedren teams with Tulsa’s Annie Clark — aka St. Vincent — to turn “Sisters of the Moon” into an exhilarating electronica-fueled rocket ride, and alternative garage-rockers the Kills bring bluesy tremolo- and reverb-enhanced atmospherics to Nicks’ “Dreams.”

Meanwhile, the Lee Renaldo Band hooks up with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis to turn Green’s two-chord instrumental “Albatros” into a cinematic sunset theme fit for the soundtrack of a Bruce Brown surfing film.

The low, husky voice of Trixie Whitley (daughter of the late Chris Whitley) lends a noir-blues tension to Green’s “Before the Beginning” and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons puts a growling Texas-boogie twist to Green’s blistering “Oh Well.”

Christine McVie gets her due when the New Pornographers apply their trademark male-female harmonies and multicolored keyboard accompaniment to a rocking reconstruction of “Think About Me,” and Lindsey Buckingham’s “That’s All For Everyone” gets a mesmerizing dream-pop treatment from Australian neo-psychedelic trio Tame Impala.

And finally, Bob Welch, the creative sparkplug of Fleetwood Mac’s transitional middle period who died tragically in June, is remembered in MGMT’s beautifully eerie electronic recasting of “Future Games,” produced by the Flaming Lips’ favorite studio wizard, Dave Fridmann.

In all, it’s a brilliant nod to a great band, assembled by noted film and TV music supervisor Randall Poster, who brought us 2011’s wonderful “Rave On Buddy Holly.”

— Gene Triplett


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