Little Quirks - Covers (2020)

I posted a proposed album from Australian folk trio Little Quirks at the beginning of the year as part of this series promoting new bands,and I mentioned in the notes that when they started out they used to busk at food markets, playing covers from The Cranberries, Of Monsters And Men, and Vance Joy. After they'd started to write their own songs they still liked to play covers for fun, often filming themselves and uploading the results to Youtube, and as their repertoire increased they included songs by Coldplay, Green Day, First Aid Kit, and Fleet Foxes, with the latter inspiring them to perform a stunning version of their 'White Winter Hymnal'. Loving the band as I do, I've been collecting these for some time now, and so I think it's about time that I shared some of them, so I've chosen my favourites from the twenty or so that they've uploaded and made this album. It's the perfect way to understand which bands have influenced the girls over the years, and they stamp their own mark on every one of these tracks. It's called simply 'Covers', so that I could adapt the artwork for their 'Cover My Eyes' EP in which to house it, and if you enjoyed their 'Devil's Ivy' album then you must hear this. If you haven't yet experienced this superb band then there's no better place to start, as this could be an easier introduction than just diving in to their self-penned material. 

Track listing 

01 Learn Me Right (Not With Haste) (Mumford & Sons)
02 In The End (Green Day)
03 King And Lionheart (Of Monsters And Men)
04 Hey Ya! (Outkast)
05 White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)
06 Best Day Of My Life (The American Authors)
07 Flowers In Your Hair (The Lumineers)
08 Zombie (The Cranberries)
09 Hopeless Wanderer (Mumford & Sons)
10 Stay Gold (First Aid Kit)
11 Fix You (Coldplay)
12 Accidentally In Love (Counting Crows)
13 From Afar (Vance Joy)

Little Quirks - Devil's Ivy (2020)

Little Quirks are an Australian indie folk band formed on the Central Coast of New South Wales in 2015 by sisters, Abbey Toole (guitar, lead vocals) and Mia Toole (drums, vocals), and their cousin Jaymi Toole (mandolin, vocals), and in 2019 they were joined by Jaymi's older brother Alex on bass guitar. When they started, Jaymi was 17 and Abbey was 15, while Mia was just 11 year old, and they busked at food markets, playing cover versions of tracks by the Cranberries, Of Monsters and Men, and Vance Joy. In 2016 they issued their first EP 'Where We Hide', which was produced by Abbey and Mia's father Adam Toole, who himself had played in bands Adam's Apple and Sugarmoth, and a second EP 'Suzie Knows' appeared in 2017. I first became aware of them in 2018 when I found some of their tracks on Soundcloud, and was impressed enough to follow them and discover more of their music. In January 2020 they issued their third EP 'Cover My Eyes', and have now have more than enough music for an album, so as they haven't released one then I'll do it for them, with a record that includes the very best of the songs from their three releases to date, plus a recent single and three tracks that are only available on Soundcloud.

Track listing

01 Stay Awake 

02 Run Away  

03 About The World

04 Big Jet Plane

05 Unwinding  

06 Hold On 

07 I Told You So

08 Crumbled

09 Stand Still

10 Devil's Ivy

11 Where We Hide

12 Someone To Hold

13 Bury Our Bones