Last final 12 months, singer-songwriter Jordana launched her EP I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking. Since then she’s teamed up with tourmates Inner Wave for the one-off single “Baby,” and he or she’s launched her model of Coldplay’s “Sparks.” Now, Jordana has teamed up with Aaron Taos, one other DIY indie-popper primarily based in New York, to cowl a Strokes basic.
Aaron Taos launched his album Birthday Boy in 2019, and now he and Jordana have gotten collectively to cowl “Under Control,” the elegantly sozzled deep lower from the Strokes’ 2003 sophomore album Room On Fire. “Under Control is a remarkably malleable track; final 12 months, Fleet Foxes and Blood Orange each occurred to play radically completely different variations of the observe at completely different New York reveals. (Fleet Foxes simply launched theirs.) In their model, Aaron Taos and Jordana flip it right into a whispery, informal bedroom-pop duet. In their video, they hang around on New York rooftops with their CD copy of Room On Fire.
Here’s what Aaron Taos says in regards to the cowl:
When Jordana and I met for the primary time, we realized in a short time that we each shared an obsession with the Strokes. What’s extra stunning is that we additionally share the identical favourite Strokes track, “Under Control,” an album lower off of their second LP Room On Fire. Naturally, we determined that we needed to cowl this superb tune. Reimagined as a minimalist duet, this gradual burn produced by Blake Richardson (previously artist Sage Baptiste) additionally comes with a lo-fi vid shot in Brooklyn, NY. We simply wish to make Julian Casablancas proud.
Below, watch the video for the Aaron Taos/Jordana model of “Under Control” and take heed to the Strokes’ unique.