Today, Sweet Nobody is sharing three covers of songs from Joanna Newsom's classic debut LP, The Milk-Eyed Mender. Honoring Newsom's wishes to keep her music off of Spotify, this covers EP is only currently streaming on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
"Someone put The Milk-Eyed Mender on my iPod forever ago and I’ve loved Joanna Newsom ever since. Early on in the band it was a shared love of ours and Brian had the idea to cover 'Bridges and Balloons' at live shows. Whenever we’d play it, there was a Joanna super fan or two who would inevitably make their way up to talk to us about it after the show. We originally recorded it for We’re Trying Our Best, but ultimately decided to stick with original songs for that project. It became a track without a home for a while, which we always thought was a bit sad.
The other two covers were privately commission by a good friend of ours as a birthday gift for her partner. It was an easy yes! These are recordings that we’ve come back to listen to many times, so it feels fitting to finally release them for other folks to enjoy." - Joy Deyo / Sweet Nobody
About Sweet Nobody:
Combining a deep love of melody with a penchant for noise emanating from suburban garages everywhere, Sweet Nobody writes anthems for the soft-spoken, the unassuming, the overlooked, and the under appreciated. Formed in 2017 and continuing despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Sweet Nobody has managed to release two albums recorded and mixed by LA indie rock wizard Joel Jerome—Loud Songs for Quiet People (2017) and We’re Trying Our Best (2021)—both of which have garnered acclaim and singles featured on tv and radio.
Their upcoming album, Driving Off to Nowhere sees them expand on their garagey jangle pop sound to include the New Wave transfiguration of late 50s/early 60s teenage pop, post-punk tones, unabashed 80s radio power pop and it’s heartland rock intersection, the romance of shoegaze / dream pop, college rock and those r&b influenced moments of 80s UK indie.