Listen to the mix via the player below, and be sure to check out the other volumes which can be found here, and are available on our 8tracks page.

Tracklisting:

1. Midnight City (M83 Cover) – The Last Bison
2. Anthems For A Seveteen Year Old Girl (Broken Social Scene Cover) – Dancing Years
3. Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus Cover) – Hayden Thorpe & Jon Hopkins
4. Native American Summer (Beat Happening Cover) – Small Wonder
5. Semi-Charmed Life (Third Eye Blind Cover) – Frontier Ruckus
6. Passionate Kisses (Lucinda Williams Cover) – Shakey Graves
7. Do You Realize (The Flaming Lips Cover) – Fossil Collective
8. Crazy In Love (Beyonce Cover) – Melissa Laveaux
9. Car (Built To Spill Cover) – Emily Reo
10. Perfect Day (Lou Reed Cover) – Phosphorescent
11. Father & Daughter (Paul Simon Cover) – The River Has Many Voices
12. Blues Run the Game (Jackson C. Frank Cover) – Oscar Lush
13. In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine Cover) – Kyle Morton & Danielle Sullivan
14. Around and Around (John Denver Cover) – Mountain Man
15. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams Cover) – Fog Lake
16. The Way the Whole Thing Ends (Gillian Welch Cover) – Night Beds
17. I Am Not Waiting Anymore (Field Report Cover) – Blind Boys of Alabama
18. Will the Circle be Unbroken? (Traditional) – Emily Lacy
19. Oblivion (Grimes Cover) – Wilsen
20. Teenage Spaceship (Smog Cover) – How To Dress Well
21. Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) (Dave van Ronk Cover) – Oscar Isaac

The Covers Mix: Volume #10 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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The Parmesans – Wolf Eggs

(RIYL: neofolk, light hearted lyrics, spicy cigarettes)

Princess Reason – Princess Reason // Always Pretty EP

(RIYL: indie pop, lo-fi, Guided By Voices)

Push & Run (Label) – Tings in Boots Vol. 2

(RIYL: electronic, garage, dubstep, James Blake)

Raven Shields – Above My Head/Forest Fire

(RIYL: acoustic, Dear Sister, Laura Gibson)

Rice Cultivation Society – sky burial

(RIYL: indie rock, folk, Grizzly Bear)

The River Has Many Voices – Division

(RIYL: folk, country, singer songwriter, Gregory Alan Isakov)

Rod Hamilton – Atitlán

(RIYL: ambient, new age, marimba)

Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels

(RIYL: hip hop, rap, El-P, Killer Mike)

Salvia Palth – melanchole

(RIYL: bedroom pop, emo, drone)

Shells – In A Cloud

(RIYL: instrumental guitars, fuzz, meteorological imagery)

Slow Warm Death – Slow Warm Death

(RIYL: garage rock, punk, Snowing)

Soda Bomb – The Future Is Going To Suck

(RIYL: pop punk, slacker rock, lo-fi)

Soda Eaves – Like Drapes Either Side

(RIYL: lo-fi rock, reverb, poetry)

Some Ember – Asleep In The Ice Palace

(RIYL: 80s synth pop, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears)

The Son Of The Sea – Old House EP

(RIYL: folk, home recordings, J. Tillman)

Sparkling Wide Pressure – Gripping the Shore // Touch the Ground to Bear Witness

(RIYL: experimental, ambient, psychedelic).

Spazzkid – Desire 願う

(RIYL: electronic, glitch pop, post-dubstep, Bibio)

Squanto – Every Night Draws the Same Crowd

(RIYL: experimental folk, slowcore, The Microphones)

Streets of Laredo – Volume I & II

(RIYL: indie pop, folk, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes)

Sun Glitters – Take Me To The Ocean // Forward and Reverse

(RIYL: electronic, dream pop, Soosh, Balam Acab)

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Aisha Burns

Violinist, singer-songwriter and member of instrumental outfit Balmorhea, Aisha Burns is multi-talented. She has recently released her debut full length album, Life In The Midwater, on Western Vinyl. It is a dark and brooding album, capped off with Burns’s superb vocals. Listen to my current favourite track, ‘Requiem’, burn with restrained intensity in the player below.

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was a folk artist who died back in 2002. A leading figure in the Greenich Village music scene, he gave help and advice to many upcoming folk acts, including a young Bob Dylan. Van Ronk is about to re-enter the limelight as the Coen brothers have made a film (the upcoming, Inside Llewyn Davis) based on his autobiography. To coincide with this, the ever brilliant Smithsonian Folkways are releasing Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, a 3CD collection of recordings, from early live performances in 1958, to his final studio sessions in 2001, shortly before his death. The film contains Van Ronk’s version of the track ‘Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)’, which is included on the set and available now as a digital download from the Smithsonian Folkways website.

Inlet Sound

Canadian band Inlet Sound recently performed a lovely rendition of ‘Fake Empire’ for Southern Souls. The band have also graced the site before, with this session last year. If you like what you hear the band’s debut album, The Romantics, was released last year.

If you don’t regularly check up on what the good folks at Southern Souls are doing you really are missing out.

The River Has Many Voices

The River Has Many Voices (aka Matthew Payne) released his latest album, Division, back in June. It is an introspective album, six romantic country songs full of sorrow and yearning. It’s really pretty and really, really good and amazingly, available as a free download over at the band’s Bandcamp page. I highly recommend you give it a try.

Sam Moss

Sam Moss is back with a new single ahead of the release of his new record, No Kingdom, later in October.  ‘Hammer’ is a taste of what the Vermont based songwriter has to offer, and you can also get ‘Ocean’ from October’s edition of Textura. The album is shaping up to be a special one and we will write a full review in the next few weeks.

Nathaniel Rateliff

Nathaniel Rateliff is back with a new album, Falling Faster Than You Can Run, which is available to buy now. Those familiar with Rateliff’s previous album will be delighted to hear this follows the same recipe, stirring folk songs that seem to grant the same importance to the silence between words and notes as they do to the words and notes themselves. We aren’t quite there yet but this is sounding like the perfect winter album, contemplative with moments of fury, elemental outpourings of emotion.

Noah Gundersen

We’ll leave you with a promo for a new Noah Gundersen album that is due out early next year.

See you next month!

P.S. As ever, a stellar collection of Soundcloud picks were posted last week. Check out Head In The Clouds here.

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