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A Week Under the Covers: Scala & Kolancy Brothers

I’ll wrap up this week with a slew of covers by one group. To quote their official website Scala & Kolancy Brothers are “a youth choir from Aarschot, Belgium, roughly sixty teenage girls, directed by two talented brothers, and enjoy national and international recognition.” Their game is taking alternative music and then doing it chorus-style. It’s not really a capella because they also use instruments and that’s good enough for me to make a distinction between them and the hundreds of college a capella groups around the country that make a play on the words “treble” and “trouble”.

I came across Scala when I was listening to every cover The Hype Machine had for Radiohead’s “Creep”. When it’s a lonely night and you have no one to talk to, it’s a song you can listen to on repeat till you just burst into tears. But then I heard Scala’s cover and when I saw they had other songs, I forgot all about how lonely I was and instead just jumped into their melancholy and haunting voices. Their music isn’t a downer but rather a captivating way to hear familiar songs. Here are eight of them for your listening pleasure:

“Colorblind” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Counting Crows)

“Creep” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Radiohead)

“Exit Music (For A Film)” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Radiohead)

“Heartbeats” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by The Knife)

“Everything In Its Right Place” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Radiohead)

“Teenage Dirtbag” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Wheatus)

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Nirvana)

“Yellow” by Scala & Kolancy Brothers (originally by Coldplay)

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