Last month, Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom announced a collaborative holiday album, A Peace of Us, with the single ‘Pretty Paper’. Today, they’re releasing a cover of Purple Mountains’ ‘Snow Is Falling in Manhattan’. Check it out via the accompanying video, animated by Lucas Moreira, below.
“David Berman’s Purple Mountains is one of the great albums of this century,” Dean Wareham said in a statement. “We were all shocked when he took his life soon after its release, and I recorded a demo of ‘Snow is Falling in Manhattan’ for a tribute to him. The song is now updated with a new mix and added vocals by Britta and Sonic Boom.”
He added, “It’s such an evocative song about a snowstorm in New York City and contains one of my favorite Berman stanzas ‘songs build little rooms in time/ and housed within the song’s design/ is the ghost the host has left behind’ — where it feels like Berman is talking to us from the beyond, he is both ghost and host, and I am the guest who sings his lines.”
A Peace of Us is set to arrive on November 22 through Carpark.