EP REVIEW: Cover Songs – Midas Fall

MIDAS FALL have been able to create full, ethereal tracks for many years, both vocally and instrumentally in the way they approach writing. So it’s interesting that between their fourth and fifth album, they’ve turned their hand to reinterpreting songs on this Cover Songs EP.

The three songs are an eclectic mix, all very popular songs but from very different artists. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN‘s Dancing In The Dark is reimagined as a quiet, light tune. The way Heaton has approached the vocals is much softer, more otherworldly and feminine. Against the deep, almost mournful synths the contrast is beautiful.

Creep is a strange beast, incorporating the key elements that pull into the original’s unnerving but enticing structure. While it’s undoubtedly a massive song in and of itself, the duo manage to weave their own reverberating, echoing delays and poignant instrumental work into it. What’s more, the post-rock drilling on the strings and the organic beats manage to create an alternate reality version of the song, where the innocence and longing overlaps with the strangeness of the track, but in a very new, dreamlike way.

PLACEBO’s Every You Every Me is another gorgeous interpretation. It maintains the essence of what the original was, its anger turned to melancholy here in this stripped down, classically strung piece. While there’s a subtle build, the tones and heart of the track really settle in and the end result is tasteful and haunting in equal measure.

MIDAS FALL have masterfully approached these songs and made them their own. While all three of these tracks are from totally different places within the umbrella of rock, the duo have tied them into a rich, ethereal and tranquil collection.

Rating: 7/10

Cover Songs is set for release on April 7th via Monotreme Records.

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