4AD completed 40 years as a record company last year and, as a late celebration, announced the compilation of new covers Bills, Aches and Blues. The collection will be launched on April 2 digitally with vinyl LPs and CDs on July 23 and a luxury vinyl box arriving later this year. The first five songs in the compilation have already been released – listen to Tkay Maidza covering Pixies, The Breeders covering His Name Is Alive, US Girls covering the Birthday Party, Aldous Harding covering Deerhunter and Maria Somerville doing a cover of Air Miami below.
Other artists featured in the compilation include Big Thief, Tune-Yards, Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Jenny Hval, Bradford Cox, Helado Negro, Bing & Ruth and SOHN. Find the full tracklist below.
The first year of earnings for Bills, Aches and Blues goes to the Harmony Project – a Los Angeles-based after-school program to help communities without equal access to arts or music education.
Read the 2020 resource “US Girls on the Absurdist Meme, Anti-Colonial History and Soul Records That Inspired Heavy light. “
Bills, Aches and Blues:
01 Tkay Maidza: “Where is my mind?” (Pixies cover)
02 US Girls: “Junkyard” (birthday party cover)
03 Aldous Harding: “Revival” (Deerhunter cover)
04 The Breeders: “Dirt Eaters” (cover of His Name Is Alive)
05 Maria Somerville: “Seabird” (cover of Air Miami)
06 Tune-Yards: “Cannonball” (cover of The Breeders)
07 Spencer.: “Genesis” (Grimes cover)
08 Helado Negro: “Futurismo” (Deerhunter cover)
09 Efterklang: “Postal” (Piano Magic cover)
10 Bing and Ruth: “Gigantic” (Pixies cover)
11 Islands of the Future: “The Moon Is Blue” (color box cover)
12 Jenny Hval: “Sunbathing” (exuberant cover)
13 Dry cleaning: “Oblivion” (Grimes cover)
14 Bradford Cox: “Mountain Battles” (cover of The Breeders)
15 SOHN: “Song to the Siren” (cover by Tim Buckley)
16 Becky and the birds: “The wolves (Act I and II)” (cover by Bon Iver)
17 Ex: Re: “Misery Is a Butterfly” (cover of the blonde redhead)
18 Big Thief: “Off You” (cover by Breeders)
