Video: Shearwater: "I Luv the Valley OH!" (Xiu Xiu Cover)

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On November 26 in the U.S. and November 25 in Europe, Shearwater will release a collection of covers via Sub Pop. It's called Fellow Travelers, and in it, they cover their previous tourmates—St. Vincent, Smog, Coldplay, Wye Oak, and more. Now, they've shared the video for their cover of Xiu Xiu's 2004 track "I Luv the Valley, OH!".

The clip was directed by Branan Edgens and designed by Kahn & Selesnick. It stars Jonathan Meiburg as one of two astronauts who is stranded after landing on an unfamiliar planet.

Here's what Meiburg said of the cover:

Xiu Xiu’s deeply anxious song always seemed like it wanted to be a big rock anthem to me, so we decided to go for it and blow it out.  I played a white 3-pickup SG (like Sister Rosetta Tharpe!) through a Marshall stack (like AC/DC!)  for the opening guitar riff – not a sound that’s ever appeared on a SW rec before – and Cully Symington whacked the drums with mallets as hard as he could, sounding more like the Swans’ orchestral-percussion approach than a regular drum set.  I love how this song – about imploring a partner to take Mifeprex, I’m pretty sure - seems to explode and implode at the same time, a state of ecstatic terror Jamie’s music often inhabits and lurks in a lot of my songs, too.

Shearwater have also announced a 2014 tour. Dates below.

Shearwater:

02-06 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room
02-07 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
02-08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
02-13 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
02-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
02-15 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
02-18 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
02-19 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
02-22 Austin, TX - The North Door
03-19 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
03-21 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
03-22 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House
03-25 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
03-27 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
03-29 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
04-23 Vienna, Austria - Szene
04-24 Dresden, Germany - Beatpol
04-25 Berlin, Germany - Privatclub
04-26 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
04-27 Hamburg, Germany - Indra
04-28 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Bitterzoet
04-29 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
04-30 London, England - XOYO
05-01 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
05-02 Bristol, England - The Fleece
05-04 Gent, Belgium - Democrazy
05-07 Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-Son
05-08 Milan, Italy - La Salumeria della Musica
05-09 Zurich, Switzerland - Bogen F

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