Say Anything and mewithoutYOU Stream Cover Swaps

Los Angeles’ Say Anything and Philadelphia’s mewithoutYOU covered each other’s songs and are releasing a limited edition, tour-only 7-inch vinyl. Listen to Torches Apart (Say Anything) and Cleo’s Ferry Cemetery (mewithoutYOU) currently streaming here.

The emo/post hardcore bands recently began touring with Teen Suicide and Museum Mouth. Purchase of the new swap is only available at the shows. Check out the remaining tour dates here.

On behalf of the cover Say Anything frontman Max Bemis said:

“This was the first song I ever heard or fell in love with recorded by my friends in mewithoutYou. Getting to know Aaron, along with my admiration for his lyrics and the way he lives his life growing over the years, has made him a sort of philosophical idol of mine. However, I often see myself as too flawed and messed up to measure up (Aaron, always humble, wouldn’t agree.) I altered the song to imprint my tendency towards cynicism and self destruction as a comment on how beautiful and inspiring the original is. Just call it the ‘Bum Out Remix’.”

mewithoutYOU’s Aaron Weiss shared:

“The original version of Cemetery embodies what I love about Say Anything: vividly corporal, emotionally confrontational, self-deprecating, brutally honest, cynical/dark while weirdly hopeful, etc. He sings way better than I can, so why bother covering his song outright?, better to do something our own, even if it’s inferior, at least it’s not only inferior. Cobbling together lines of Max’s, lines of mine, a Morrissey lyric, it’s harder to know who gets credit if it turns out well, who’s to blame if it fails, probably accounting for the somewhat-less-anxiety-ridden-than-usual song production process. All this plus we can recommend a visit to Cleo’s Ferry Museum in Melba, Idaho—a partial cure-place, I think, for what ails ‘people’ like me and Max.”