She Loves You
Afghan Whigssinger Greg Dulli has always had a soft spot for karaoke. Many of the highlights of his former band's live shows involved staggering covers of songs by unlikely sources likeCurtis MayfieldandStevie Wonder. With his latest outfit, Dulli finally gets to make the album that's been bursting through his skin. The material forShe Loves Youcomes from sources as disparate asBjörk("Hyperballad") andJohn Coltrane("A Love Supreme") but the singer treats them all with the same ravenous intensity, gasping through majestic versions of "Strange Fruit" and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" with the unshakable intention to make each song his own.--Aidin Vaziri