This is a cover of one of my favorite songs for the 10th anniversary of Apologies to the Queen Mary, prompted by a celebration on the WP fansite. It's pretty rushed and it's almost 3 am right now so I can't tell if it's good but let's hope so.

For a long time, I have considered Fancy Claps my favorite love song. Maybe that's a little strange considering the energy of it - frantic, urgent, morbid. But I can't think of a song that better communicates the experience.
I wrote a journal entry in April of 2012 about the album and this song in particular, here's a cut down version of it:
"...And I was so sad because I thought I'd never be able to talk to him about Wolf Parade. Fancy Claps. How much it meant to me. How I could feel myself simultaneously shattering and spasming, heartbeat up, this is how you made me feel...I said it was about how morbid love is, and I guess there's some truth to that, but that makes it sound different than I want it to. Love outlasts death, so ultimately the two things have to be linked, however tenuously. But in a good way, that rendered me fearless of all except having to live without him. But you can't live in fear of that. What I say doesn't matter, all of it is wrong. The song is there for that. And it speak for itself...Skimming the surface of infinity."
I've wanted to do this cover for a while, but I felt like I was doing a disservice to it, because to me, playing it slow kind of cancels out the point of the whole thing. It loses its sense of urgency. But it gains something else, I think. Maybe this cover can be symbolic of how I've calmed down a bunch since I was an intense 16 year old. I hope I still have the same depth of feeling.
Thanks Wolf Parade, thanks Spencer, thanks Venus (the planet).

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