Listen: Lower Dens Cover Hall & Oates’ “Maneater” For “The Time Is Now” Charity Compilation
The Time Is Now Due Out October 7 via Republic/Mass Appeal
Sep 29, 2016
Lower Dens
Lower Dens has covered Daryl Hall and John Oates’ 1982 classic “Maneater” (from their H2O album). The cover will appear on a new charity album, The Time Is Now, which is due out October 7 via Republic/Mass Appeal and benefits amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research). Lower Dens previously covered the song live last year for a Sirius XMU radio session.
The compilation also features Phantogram covering Phil Collins, Metric taking on The Church, Aloe Blacc singing Michael Jackson, and a rendition of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” by Sugar For Sugar (the new band featuring Scarlett Johansson, Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda, and Kendra Morris). The full tracklist is below, as well as the cover art. Also below is Lower Dens’ “Maneater” cover, followed by Hall & Oates’ original video for the song and Sugar For Sugar’s New Order cover.
Lower Dens latest album, Escape From Evil, came out last year via Ribbon Music.
The Time Is Now Tracklist:
01 Phantogram: “Take Me Home” (Phil Collins cover)
02 Sugar for Sugar: “Bizarre Love Triangle” (New Order cover)
03 Metric: “Under the Milky Way” (The Church cover)
04 Brazilian Girls: “Whip It” (Devo cover)
05 Bebel Gilberto: “Rio” (Duran Duran cover)
06 DNCE: “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (Tina Turner cover)
07 Aloe Blacc: “Billie Jean” (Michael Jackson cover)
08 Dita Von Teese and Sebastien Tellier: “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” (Culture Club cover)
09 Lower Dens: “Maneater” (Hall and Oates cover)
10 Chaos Chaos: “Genius of Love” (Tom Tom Club cover)
11 Marian Hill “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” (Whitney Houston cover)
12 LP: “Pride (In the Name of Love)” (U2 cover)
13 Yuna: “Lovesong” (The Cure cover)
14 Theophilus London: “Dance Hall Days” (Wang Chung cover)
(Via Pitchfork)
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September 29th 2016
2:15pm
It’s very good song sir, i hope got an Update about your content, Bravo!