Yoni Wolf (WHY?) Covers Pavement

WHY? founding member and lead man Yoni Wolf pays tribute to another adept phrase turner with this cover of Pavement's "Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)," from that band's 1992 EP Watery, Domestic. Wolf is sitting alone at the piano here, so it's a rearrangement bathed more in the sort of bathos we heard on the first single from WHY?'s forthcoming LP, "This Blackest Purse." In his own words: I heard ["Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)" recently and I just always have liked that song. I like that EP ...

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