Duncan Sheik - Covers 80

Duncan Sheik -- singer/songwriter and co-creator of the Tony-winning Broadway rock musical Spring Awakening expands his fall '10 EP of classic U.K. 80's songs to a 12-track full-length // Release: Covers 80 (June 7) // Sounds like: tracks that were heavy on the Brit synth-pop tradition get a more organic feel...even Depeche Mode's "Stripped" gets a banjo twang // What we like: the classic Tears For Fears song "Shout" is an interesting interpretation with some vocal support by Rachael Yamagata...and how can we not love a Blue Nile song? "Stay" could be the one to seal the deal...and weren't we just posting a version of The Thompson Twins' "Hold Me Now?" Hmmm...(Track list after the jump)

Duncan Sheik - "Shout" (from Covers 80)

Duncan Sheik - "Stripped" (from Covers 80)

1. Stripped (Depeche Mode)
2. Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins)
3. Love Vigilantes (New Order)
4. Kyoto Song (The Cure)
5. What Is Love (Howard Jones)
6. So Alive (Love and Rockets)
7. Shout (Tears for Fears)
8. Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Japan)
9. Life’s What You Make of It (Talk Talk)
10. William It Was Really Nothing (The Smiths)
11. Stay (The Blue Nile)
12. The Ghost In You (The Psychedelic Furs)