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On 2008's Things Of The Past, Vetiver's Andy Cabic covered songs recorded in the 1960s and 1970s - a variation on what he'd been doing as a songwriter since his 2005 debut. His latest does more, coloring his studied folk-rock with vintage keyboard drones, vocal effects, and drum machines that erase his tracks nicely. "Can't You Tell" starts out like a Beach House jam, then catches a breezy Latin groove. "Ride Ride Ride," a candidate for the heaviest Vetiver track yet, seems a weird but tasty mix of the Velvet Underground and Grand Funk Railroad. Cabic's vocals, always low-key, are nearly ambient here, letting you take what you need and leave the rest.

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.