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The Well cover of "I Feel You" by Depeche Mode off of the album "Songs of Faith and Devotion."
Why do a cover song (or songs)?
We haven’t done covers often, we’ve done a couple. It’s great practice to get into the minds of other musicians, it’s weird, it’s out of our comfort zone. It helps progression to be out of that comfort zone, outside of our genre. There’s an obvious respect value, where we’re dealing with musicians that we admire and their creations.
Why start with this particular Depeche Mode song?
At its core, “I Feel You” is a stripped down blues song. It has an ominous feel to it. What Depeche Mode did with this track was simple brilliance. The riff is great, and we wanted to roll with that, but make it more guitar focused. Depeche Mode is one of my favorite bands to listen to because of the heavy emotional content and Dave Gahan’s vocal delivery. It’s passionate and there’s this underlying desperation or sadness there constantly that’s transcendent beyond any one song but especially encapsulated in this one. The kind of sadness that unexpectedly puts me in a good mood, uplifts. If you look at our lyrics, there’s always been a dark, romantic edge. This isn’t too off of the mark.
What did The Well do differently with this cover?
While Depeche Mode is known as a synth heavy band, part of the 80s New Wave, we decided to stay The Well with this cover and emulate those synth overtones and noise with affected guitar and bass.
We’re planning on doing a series of these covers, released under the moniker of “Love Song Demos”, recorded the quarantine way - individually in our practice space.
credits
released October 2, 2020
Performance and arrangement by The Well
Original song written by Martin Gore
Recorded & mixed by TV's Daniel
The flac version of this sounds great in my truck... not a crunch, clip or boom to be heard. That, in itself, gets this major points.
This is a lovely combination of early Floyd, U2 and a few San Francisco bands from the '60s with a heavy dose of Helmet tossed in. It's definitely best of breed when it comes to modern psych stuff. Even without a Hammond B3, it gets an easy A+... rick-taylor
For some reason, what I previewed and the real songs was somewhat different - maybe because of the cover art?
But I definitely don't regret something more spacial than expected. The recent Ocean drifting in space. frankwurst
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