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Uncovered QOTSA

I’m surely oh-so-late to the party on this, but Nouvelle Vague’s Olivier Libaux has recorded a new album of Queens Of The Stone Age covers performed by female singers.

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Libaux about the album:

“I remember I was already thinking about doing an album like mine back in 2006, when touring with Nouvelle Vague…I was sure some Queens of the Stone Age songs would become wonderful, played softly, sung by female vocalists.”

Rather than make the covers album into a Nouvelle Vague project with French singers, though, he was keen to try something different.

“I wanted the album to be performed by English-speaking artists,” Libaux said. “I know that Nouvelle Vague sometimes sounded funny because of some of our singers’ accents. But my ‘Uncovered QOTSA’ had to be 100-percent accent free. I believe it’s because I wanted the lyrics to be as close to the bone as they could be. I then listed all my favorite female singers of this world and sent tones of e-mails. I was very fortunate since many of these singers answered ‘yes’ without any hesitation.”

Its charm may well wear thin on repeated plays, but you can currently stream the whole album at Soundcloud and decide for yourself:

If nothing else, I’d love to know who did the jazzy Milton Glaser-esque art.

The album is out in the US on July 16.

(via Largehearted Boy)

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