It’s one thing to consider covering an entire album, another thing to do it and still another thing yet to do it with one instrument - your own voice. But in the hands of Petra Hayden the results are exactly what you’d expect them to be - stunning, fresh and buoyant. Although the sound quality at times is (refreshingly) “imperfect” by today’s standards, it lends an extra layer of authenticity to a disc that demands you accept it on its own terms. Perhaps most important in all of this is that Hayden’s taken the music of one of the most testosterone-driven bands in its most testosterone-driven era and given it a delicacy and shine that perhaps it didn’t need, but is all the better for having it. Let’s be thankful for Petra Hayden, we need more artists like her.

Make sure you read the liner notes from Mike Watt, who initiated this project and beams like a proud older brother at what his friend has done. – Jedd Beaudoin