Muna Covers Taylor Swift’s ‘August:’ Listen – Rolling Stone

It’s giving Swiftie! On Wednesday, Muna launched their Stay at Electrical Girl EP, which options none apart from a canopy of “August” by Taylor Swift.

In a press release, the band described the track as taking up “this very breathy, quiet high quality that we hadn’t anticipated, however we simply went with.”

“The entire atmosphere at Electrical Girl Studios is so supportive and open, it usually results in making new inventive selections when you’re within the midst of recording,” Muna added.

The EP additionally options reside performances of among the tracks from their self-titled LP, which was launched this 12 months. It consists of reside recordings of “Taken,” “Something However Me,” and “Form of Woman,” which was impressed by Swift herself and her custom of placing painful songs as Observe 5 on her information.

“All of the songs that we had had been fairly huge vitality songs and really assured, confident songs,” Naomi McPherson beforehand advised Vulture. “It’s to not say that ‘Form of Woman’ isn’t that — I feel it’s, it’s only a completely different perspective. That one got here at what’s going to retrospectively really feel like a reasonably pivotal level for us. We needed a type of Swiftian, middle-of-the-album, heart-wrenching monitor. That type of track-five second.”

The Swift-Muna love dates again to 2020, when Taylor positioned the group’s single “Quantity One Fan” on a playlist celebrating Worldwide Ladies’s Day. “oh hiiiiii thanks (once more!)” the band wrote to Swift on the time.

Most just lately, lead singer Katie Gavin advised Nylon that she was “sprinkling in Taylor Swift each time I can” on their self-titled album.

The trio additionally spoke to Rolling Stone just lately forward of their LP. “If there’s something that’s constant when it comes to what I delivered to the desk because the lyricist on this document, is that this sense of company, Gavin stated. “And this possession of want, whether or not that want is to be with anyone, or to be out of a relationship, or to make a change in your life.”