Shannon Lay’s Covers Vol. 1 Review
Image courtesy of Pitchfork
Written by Marina Malin
As I begin to write this, the only items in my backpack are two books on albums from Elliott Smith and Nick Drake that I am cheerlessly returning to the music library. This morning as I scrolled through my Instagram feed, naturally I nearly screeched at the Pitchfork release post of Shannon Lay’s Covers Vol. 1; The brief caption mentioned my forever favorites, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. Never having heard of Shannon Lay, the dynamic duo was enough for me to spring out of bed and immediately binge the album in its entirety (which made me very late to class). It felt as if the album was a gift to me as covers of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier, Ty Segall, and Velvet Underground accompanied the two.
Covers Vol. 1 begins with...