Impure Wilhelmina have announced a covers record, Dead Decades, due for release October 6 via Season Of Mist Records. Dead Decades includes covers of King Crimson, The Cure, and Serge Gainsbourg.
Impure Wilhelmina states:
“As soon as we thought about doing covers, this song came to mind. Serge Gainsbourg, one of the major figures of 20th-century French music, has been around us for a very long time, even if his musical universe is far removed from our own. ‘La Javanaise’ is one of his greatest (and least subversive) classics, published in 1963. This heavy cover of a song written before metal even existed contrasts with the light-hearted romanticism of the lyrics. It fits perfectly with the spirit of Impure Wilhelmina. For the video, we used archive footage of Paris in the 1960s to match the atmosphere. The whole thing was beautifully edited by Guilherme Henriques, and the result is stunning!”
After two highly successful European tours in 2022 Impure Wilhelmina focused in 2023 on the vinyl reissue of their second album “I can’t believe I was born in July” for its 20th anniversary. The new EP Dead Decades features three covers and two unreleased cuts from their recent album Antidote released in may 2021.
Photo courtesy of Impure Wilhelmina
