Apple Music Home Session: Valley

Apple Music Home Session: Valley

Toronto alt-pop quartet Valley have wide-ranging tastes, and that's evident even when they’re stripping things down to piano and acoustic basics. For their Apple Music Home Session set, they offer a glimpse of what they’ve been up to during the pandemic, which is the same thing everyone’s been doing during the pandemic: singing along to Olivia Rodrigo hits in their living room. But their lead-off cover of Rodrigo’s pop-punk rager “good 4 u” relocates the song from the mosh pit to the supermarket PA system. “We wanted to reimagine it as an ’80s ballad and really focus on the vocal and the story,” vocalist Rob Laska tells Apple Music. “It’s the ‘good 4 u’ version that plays at the grocery store while you’re shopping on a Thursday evening.” Elsewhere, Valley’s alt-rock homage “Cure”—which quotes the namesake band’s “Boys Don’t Cry”—gets downshifted into the sort of coffeehouse R&B tune you could imagine soundtracking a late-’90s rom-com, while the BFF blood-pact anthem “Last Birthday” is liberated from its yacht-rock groove and left to float toward the heavens. “We always love opportunities where we can take our songs and let them thrive in a new sonic universe,” Laska says. “We enjoy pulling them apart and imagining another artist recording them—it’s like playing dress-up as a kid, but with your own songs.”

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