Take Cover

Take Cover is a strongly conceptual covers album that deftly translates other artists’ original songs into a Queensrÿche-like sound. Rather than viewing it as a mere song selection, the great pleasure of this work is hearing the process of interpretation — how Queensrÿche transposes its roots and the external songs that influenced it into their own timing, voice and guitar sound. Rather than merely relying on the fame of the originals, the band’s own sure quirks and aesthetic clearly emerge within the powerful drive of the rhythm, the thickness of the choruses and the distinctive air flowing around the solos. Song choices from wide genres, such as Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel, tell of the members’ rich musical background. A record on which one wants to turn one’s ear not only to the origins of each included song but to the strange unity born within the album’s ordering. Though a project album a little apart from the flow of the signature works, an artist’s aesthetic strongly appears precisely in the method of how it interprets and reconstructs others’ songs. Letting you confirm Queensrÿche’s musical outline in three dimensions, it is an intriguing covers work.