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Brad Walsh covers The Roches

May 5, 2013 1 Comment

Nearly everything I know about The Roches I know through a 1991 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures in which the sisterly trio was animated as a cockroach band.

So with precious little previous familiarity of the folk rockers’ oeuvre, I take Brad Walsh at his word that his cover of The Roches’ “The Angry Angry Man,” from their 1985 album, Another World, is “liberally interpreted,” as the multi-hyphenate talent writes on SoundCloud.

Sampling The Roches’ original track (here’s a live version if you’re inclined), Walsh casts his cover of “The Angry Angry Man” as something fantastical and more than a little tribal, giving his interpretation an other-worldly edge that I find captivating.

Free download of Brad Walsh – “The Angry Angry Man” (The Roches cover) via the player above.