As a fan of Rick and Morty, it’s great to hear a well-done cover of “Goodbye Moonmen.” The show’s Bowie homage was always a fun one, and similar in vein to Flight of the Conchords’ “Bowie in Space.” The cover of the Rick and Morty cut comes from Nick Campbell Destroys, a Los Angeles-based experimental jazz/R&B/soul artist, from his 2020 EP Lo-fi Bass Music for Quarantine. Nick Campbell Destroys shows a more haunting, emotive feeling here than the tongue-in-cheek original — complete with consuming string-based adornments that appear past the one-minute mark. The “we say goodbye,” vocal expression near the two-minute mark plays with particularly sweet appeal. Nick Campbell Destroys’ cover, featuring Michael Mayo, thoroughly succeeds.
The artist explains more about the EP below:
“This EP is a direct response to having to adapt to music making during the Covid-19. As a session bass player I have spent the majority of my career playing with and writing music for live bands. I was in the middle of working on my debut LP, which features a slew of live collaborators from bands like Lettuce, Vulfpeck and Shrek is Love, when the pandemic hit in March. It was put on hold while in person collaboration became impossible. I spent the first couple of months of quarantine holed up in my bedroom as a student trying to learn everything I could about recording and home production. This EP of covers ended up being my final exam. I played almost all of the instruments and recorded almost everything myself in my bedroom. It features some arrangements of my favorite Jazz standards and a song from my favorite TV show, Rick and Morty, and a few remote collaborations with some of my favorite musicians and humans.”
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“Goodbye Moonmen” and other memorable tracks from August can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of August 2020’ Spotify playlist.
