Clairo has shared her interpretation of Margo Guryan’s observe, “Love Songs.” The track is off the beforehand introduced, Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan, a 12-song compilation and homage to Guryan’s basic 1968 report, Take a Picture, arriving on On November eighth, through Sub Pop.
The compilation options variations options twelve interpretations by Margo Price, TOPS, Rahill, June McDoom, MUNYA & Kainalu, Frankie Cosmos & Good Morning, Kate Bollinger, Pearl & The Oysters, Bedouine & Sylvie, Barrie, and Empress Of. The launch of Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan additionally coincides with the third anniversary of Margo’s passing. A portion of proceeds from this album shall be donated to offering and advocating for inexpensive reproductive well being companies.
Various Artists
Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan
Sub Pop Records
Tracklisting:
1. Sunday Morning (TOPS)
2. Sun (Rahill)
3. Love Songs (Clairo)
4. Thoughts (June McDoom)
5. Don’t Go Away (MUNYA | Kainalu)
6. Take a Picture (Frankie Cosmos |Good Morning)
7. What Can I Give You (Kate Bollinger)
8. Think of Rain (Pearl & The Oysters)
9. Can You Tell (Bedouine | Sylvie)
10. Someone I Know (Empress Of)
11. Love (Barrie)
12. California Shake (Margo Price)
Margo Guryan, an ardent jazz anomaly who disdained pop music till listening to “God Only Knows” in 1966, opening a window onto the wonders that kind might include. Only two years later, she launched her personal set of little pop symphonies, Take a Picture, to nice reward and expectation. But having already divorced the hard-gigging valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, she declined to tour and even discuss all of it that a lot, content material even when her reticence meant Take a Picture was quickly consigned to low cost racks and cutout bins. She wrote and recorded for years to return, even collaborating with Neil Diamond’s band, however principally she appeared glad by her comparatively personal life—elevating her stepson, Jonathan; carousing with a small clutch of friends; speaking politics with whoever was sport. Rather than a tragedy, Guryan was an ornate pop architect who additionally drew and lived by her boundaries.
But as befits music so beautiful and refined, Guryan, who died in 2021, has loved a number of renaissances over the previous couple of many years—a number of reissues and worldwide intrigue, devoted champions who launched her tender work to successive generations. And now, it’s taking place once more: Soon after her near-whispered and lovelorn hymn “Why Do I Cry” made her a TikTok star in 2021, the identical yr she handed, Numero Group launched a reissue marketing campaign, ensuing within the acclaimed 2024 set, Words and Music. And now, a dozen artists—none of whom had been born when Take a Picture was made, most of whom weren’t even born for a essential early reissue by Franklin Castle—have reinterpreted and reimagined that complete album (plus one bonus observe) for Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan. Empress Of, Margo Price, Clairo, June McDoom: They all affirm Guryan’s sharpness as a songwriter and the brilliance of an album that has far outstripped no matter promotional cycle Guryan rejected so way back.
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