New Music 2024

Broken Record / A Place for Owls – Jimmy Eat World Split

Denver emo. Mesa emo. Denver’s Broken Record and A Place for Owls both contributed Jimmy Eat World covers for a split to benefit the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, each picking deep cuts from decidedly different eras of the band. Broken Record went for “What I Would Say to You Now,” a Static Prevails b-side that befits their scrappy, fuzzed-out indie rock sound, and their take would fit nicely on Nothing Moves Me; A Place for Owls took on “Polaris,” one of the more underrated Futures tracks, a dramatic five-minute ballad that’s recontextualized here as a clear antecedent to sweeping how we dig in the earth songs like “haunted” or “help me let the right ones in.” Neither band dabbles with the source material the way that Keep Reaching did with “How Soon Is Now?”–if it ain’t broke, etc.–but they’re two great covers for a great cause.

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