Kevin Bronson on June 12th, 2015

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I’d bet the proverbial farm that L.A. trio Tashaki Miyaki has about 50 dreamy demos laying around somewhere gathering digitial dust, waiting for their moment to be properly captured in all their fuzzy glory. Last month, though, more than a year after their “Cool Runnings” 7-inch, the band released their second set of cover songs, “Under Cover Vol. II.” Here, in their languid, reverb-saturated splendor are the trio’s takes on Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away,” the Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes for You” and Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain” (made a bigger hit by Tina Turner). All well and good if you get excited about cover songs, which I normally don’t. Until “Never My Love” gave me a rare and almost indescribable nostalgia attack. Maybe it was a childhood spent wearing out this record, and arguing which was better, this Addrisi Brothers-penned single or the Ruthann Friedman-penned “Windy.”

||| Stream: “Never My Love” and get the whole collection here:

||| Previously: “Cool Runnings”