Forget Ryan Adams’s 1989, an album whose pleasures should be apparent to only Ryan Adams fans and interesting to a smaller cohort still. In terms of gender-flipped cover collections, what Bleachers just did in Terrible Thrills Vol. 2 is much, much livelier: it’s their debut album Strange Desire with a different woman on the vocals of each track, with Sia, Tinashe, MØ, Brooke Candy + Jack Antonoff’s sister (?), NATALIE MAINES, Carly Rae and former Bleachers tourmate Charli XCX all coming out to play.
Charli’s track in particular, a slightly punker version of the melting, heart-warm, Springsteen-lite single “Rollercoaster,” is terrific: