New School Deep Elm meets Old School Deep Elm in this unique collection of cover songs. Newer bands on the Deep Elm roster were given total freedom to cover songs from our older bands / alumni...and the results are simply incredible. Get your hands on one of these...this is a Limited Edition of 1,000 CDs. The record also includes a new track from Sounds Like Violence and closes with a fan-submitted track by Nathaniel Sutton about our label and bands. Word. (DER-450)
01. Desert City Soundtrack covers The Appleseed Cast
02. Small Arms Dealer covers Cross My Heart
03. Clair De Lune covers Benton Falls
04. Fightstar covers Last Days Of April
05. Lock And Key covers Brandtson
06. Eleven Minutes Away covers Camber
07. Free Diamonds covers Muckafurgason
08. Surrounded covers Starmarket
09. Dan Phillips of Slowride covers The Appleseed Cast
10. Burns Out Bright covers Pop Unknown
11. Settlefish covers Last Days Of April
12. Sounds Like Violence "Noone Knows What We've Got"
13. Nathaniel Sutton "Deep Elm Is A Friend Of Mine"
"If only all cover versions were this good. The source material is second-to-none and the modern roster really steps up to the plate on Cover Your Tracks. The premise is simple: 11 modern Deep Elm bands cover 11 classic tracks from the vaults. It's a genius idea, and with the likes of Desert City Soundtrack obliterating The Appleseed Cast's 'Marigold And Patchwork' you know you're onto a winner. Better still, Small Arms Dealer put an incendiary device under Cross My Heart's 'Today I Discovered The Word', and Surrounded deliver one of the finest covers you'll ever hear with a striped down take on Starmarket's classic 'Coming From The Cold.' Strictly limited, you'd best get your wallet out." - Big Cheese
"Cover Your Tracks is a very unique comp; New school Deep Elm bands cover a song by an old school Deep Elm band in their own style. There's a lot of variation of genre and style, but one thing remains clear: Deep Elm knows passionate music. Whether it's the lush and dewy-eyed sounds of Surrounded, the Long Island pummeling that is Small Arms Dealer, the frenetic dance-rock of Free Diamonds or the post-hardcore of Fightstar, there's quality in all of these bands. That's incredible. I would recommend this Cover Your Tracks to anyone interested in underground rock right now. Props to Deep Elm, once again." - Independent Clauses
"With Cover Your Tracks, Deep Elm came up with an idea that is as awesome as it is simple: let all of your active bands on the roster pay tribute to some of your label's alumni. They must have been patting each other on the back for days before letting Clair De Lune and Fightstar take on a Benton Falls and Last Days Of April respectively and getting great covers in return. They must have still been congratulating each other by the time Burns Out Bright handed over their punked-up version of This Guy's Ready For Bed. And they must have been roaring with excited laughter when Slowride's Dan Phillips came in with an amazing acoustic rendition of Fishing The Sky. Then they added an unreleased song by Sounds Like Violence before calling it a day with yet another must-have compilation." - Punk Rock Theory
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