Hot on the heels of last year’s full-length Year of the Banana, Rubblebucket begins something of a megatour, and to mark the occasion they’ve released an effervescent Moldy Peaches cover and a SiriusXM live session featuring a performance of the tune.
But of course this isn’t all happening in a vacuum. Their hearts ache for L.A., and the band will be donating 100% of digital Bandcamp sales revenue from the new track and from Year Of The Banana to Altadena Girls Fire Recovery.
“Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the fires in L.A., including many friends of ours.”
“We have always loved the Moldy Peaches song ‘Anyone Else But You.’ The lyrics are so poetic and the song is so simple. Despite being so soft the performance has a punk ethos in its level of carefreeness. The vibe really captures our spirit and the lyrics deeply speak to our story of being friends, then romantic and then just friends again. In that way it also brings out the spirit/story of our most recent album Year of the Banana which is about enduring friendship in its various poetic snapshots of our cosmic collision. It was a little challenging to figure out how we could bring something fresh to something so perfect without ruining it but we’re happy with our added syncopations, percussion, trumpet and synthesizer. We also made sure to run it by our friend Adam Green who is one half of Moldy Peaches who said in response: ‘This is great!! Love the trumpet and the ethereal pads in the second half – you guys do it perfectly – I wouldn’t overthink it – the nature of the song is casual like this so it really works… You guys sound superb singing it.’ Thanks Adam!”
What do you think of Rubblebucket’s cover of Moldy Peaches’ “Anyone Else But You”?
