Featuring 20 songs from the influential North Carolina label’s two-decade history--as covered by bands unaffiliated with but influenced by their roster--SCORE! Mostly lives up to its exclamatory title.

Merge Records celebrates its first twenty years with SCORE!- a compilation of covers done by non-Merge artists. All proceeds benefit charities chosen by the SCORE curators. Published by All the Songs Sound the Same (BMI) / Wixen Music Publishing Inc. Recorded at The Magic Shop, NYC, June 2. Download Score 20 years of merge records the covers mediafire.com (104 MB) Score 20 years of merge records the covers mediafire.com (28 MB) The Best of.

While artists like St. Stephen Jay Gould Panda Thumb Pdf Editor. Vincent and The National give passionate renditions of more obscure tracks like Crooked Fingers’ “Sleep All Summer,” this collection’s value will ultimately be derived from an individual listener's connection to the original source material. That said, it’s hard to avoid goose bumps at Les Savy Fav’s twitchy, faithful homage to Superchunk’s “Precision Auto” or Times New Viking’s noisy re-imagining of Arcade Fire’s modern-day classic, “Neighborhood #1.”.