(Something here about unknown acts who play a marginalized style of music gaining credibility and/or irony points by entering the wider public discourse via a novelty cover)
I really shouldn’t like this–lord knows I don’t care much (or know much, tbh) about the source material or these guys–but there’s something in the sincerity of their performance [...]

First, the band members on AA&A’s self-titled debut album: Howie Gelb from alt-country pioneers Giant Sand, backed with a revolving cast that includes M. Ward, Scout Niblett, Grandaddy, and Jeremy from Arcade Fire. Second, the song: stripping all of the jazzy, ambient studio perfection from Traffic’s canonized original and replacing it with a dusty yet [...]