Free Covers EP : The Morning Benders : The Bedroom Covers

The Morning Benders are giving away a delightful EP full of their favorite covers. That's right, it's free. You can send me a check if you want, but they say they don't want squat from you...other than your ears to listen.

We wrote about this band so long ago, we almost forgot how relaxing and enjoyable their sunny, California pop sound is. The band didn't try to rearrange the songs - they didn't try to insert any wackiness into them. Refreshingly, they just tried to play them as cleanly and as simple as possible.

You'll need to check notable music blogs like 3Hive and Spinner throughout the week to get the rest of the free songs.

The Morning Benders - Mother & Child Reunion (Paul Simon cover)

Here is the tracklist...

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
He's A Rebel (The Crystals)
Lovefool (The Cardigans)
Marie (Randy Newman)
Mother & Child Reunion (Paul Simon)
Pull Up The Roots (Talking Heads)
Temptation Inside Your Head (Velvet Underground)

The band says...

"These songs sound the way they do, because we recorded them with a laptop and one mic. We used mainly acoustic guitars and shakers because that's what we had lying around, and we couldn't make much noise in our apartment anyway. We didn't spend time arranging any of these either. We learned the chords and the lyrics (which was pretty easy because we've heard all these songs hundreds of times), and we played 'em. What you hear at the basis of the recording is generally a first take. Sometimes we added some background vocals or another guitar part here or there, because the songs we were covering had a lot more going on than us, and we were feeling a bit inadequate...You're always fighting a losing battle when you're recording covers, because 99.99% of the time the cover isn't going to be as good the original. Well, for the record, let it be known that none of our covers are as good as the originals. That's part of why we wanted to give all these tracks away for free."

Tour dates after the jump...

US Tour Dates:

July 12th Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon (with Supergrass)
July 20th San Francisco, CA GOOD Magazine Block Party @ 111 Minna
September 13th Morrison, CO Monolith @ Red Rocks
September 21st San Francisco, CA Treasure Island Music Festival
September 28th San Diego, CA @ Casbah (with Ra Ra Riot)
September 29th Phoenix, AZ @ Modified (with Ra Ra Riot)
September 30th Tucson, AZ @ Plush (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 2nd Dallas, TX @ The Loft (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 3rd Austin, TX @ Stubb's (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 4th Houston, TX @ Rudyards (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 7th Orlando, FL @ The Social (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 8th Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 10th Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 11th Raleigh, NC @ Local 506 (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 12th Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 14th Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (with Ra Ra Riot)
Octboer 15th Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 18th Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs (with Ra Ra Riot)
October 28th Santa Barbara, CA @ UCSB

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