Hear Superchunk & Quivers Cover Dead Moon & Yo La Tengo on New Split: Listen

Every now and then, North Carolina indie OGs Superchunk like to dress up as another band for Halloween. For example, in 2020 Superchunk went out as goth greats The Sisters Of Mercy, or at least they covered the ”Alice”on a Halloween 7″. It’s been a while, but now Superchunk is back with a new one, and they have help. Superchunk’s new Halloween 7″ is a split with their recent tour mates Quivers, the Melbourne band recently signed to Merge and the singles “Appearance“And”Pink smoke.”

Superchunk, who released their own single “Everyone diesEarlier this year they took on Dead Moon, the much-missed power trio from Portland. Dead Moon was once an institution, but drummer Andrew Loomis dead in 2016, and frontman Fred Cole died a year later. Both losses absolutely suck. If you’re at a show and you see someone in a Dead Moon shirt, you’re at the right show. Superchunk cover ‘Fire In The Western World’, an absolute stunner from the 1992 album Dead Moon Strange pray telland they attack the song with fiery urgency.

As for Quivers, they’ve set themselves the very difficult task of covering “Pass The Ratchet, I Think I’m Goodkind,” the eleven-minute epic that opens Yo La Tengo’s 2006 album. I’m not afraid of you and I will beat you up. A full cover of that song wouldn’t fit on one side of a split 7″, but Quivers tightened it up, keeping the song’s psychedelic harmonic swirl but making it a little more bite-sized. Listen to the covers of that song below Superchunk and Quivers, as well as the original Dead Moon and Yo La Tengo songs.

The Superchunk/Quuivers split is now available on Merge.