{"id":19040,"date":"2017-07-25T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/?p=19040\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:05:01","slug":"little-scream-does-mary-margaret-oharas-anew-day-for-siriusxm-polaris-cover-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/fr\/blog\/little-scream-does-mary-margaret-oharas-anew-day-for-siriusxm-polaris-cover-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Scream Does Mary Margaret O\u2019Hara\u2019s \u201cAnew Day\u201d For SiriusXM Polaris Cover Session"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little Scream covers Mary Margaret O’Hara.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC Music <\/a>and produced by Blue Ant Media<\/a>, has revealed its third SiriusXM Polaris Cover Session for 2017 featuring Little Scream reinterpreting \u201cAnew Day\u201d from Mary Margaret O\u2019Hara\u2019s 1988 album Miss America<\/em>.<\/p>\n

An in-studio performance video of the song is now available via the Polaris Music Prize\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>. Additionally, an audio stream of it can be found on the official Polaris Soundcloud page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a really, really big Mary Margaret O\u2019Hara fan,\u201d said Little Scream, also known as Laurel Spenglemeyer, in the song\u2019s video. \u201cThe song that we decided to do was \u2018Anew Day.\u2019 It\u2019s a little bit of an oddball pop tune and it feels a little more restless and exploratory. It felt less sacrilegious to see what we could do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little Scream recorded her version of \u201cAnew Day\u201d at Fixed Hinge studio in Stittsville, Ontario. She sings and plays guitar on the track, while Mike Dubue added bass and synth, Jim Bryson played acoustic guitar and Pascal Delaquis played drums. Bryson mixed and engineered the song in addition to co-producing with Little Scream. It was mastered by Noah Mintz.<\/p>\n

The Little Scream adaptation is the third of three cover sessions planned for 2017 that featured past Polaris nominees interpreting songs from \u201chall of fame\u201d albums that have received Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation. O\u2019Hara\u2019s Miss America<\/em> album received Heritage Prize honours last year in the 1986-95 jury vote category. Little Scream made the Polaris Music Prize Long List in 2011 for her album The Golden Record<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Other cover sessions in this year\u2019s series include Hannah Georgas taking on Arcade Fire\u2019s \u201cCrown Of Love\u201d and Les soeurs Boulay doing Kate & Anna McGarrigle\u2019s \u201cComplainte pour Ste-Catherine.\u201d These three cover sessions are being compiled onto a collectible 10\u201d vinyl record that will be given free to purchasers of 2017 Polaris nominated albums at participating record retail stores starting in August.<\/p>\n

Other songs in the cover sessions series<\/a>, which are also supported by SOCAN<\/a> and Precision Record Pressing<\/a>, include Zaki Ibrahim performing Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cShow Me The Place,\u201d Whitehorse performing The New Pornographers\u2019 \u201cBones Of An Idol,\u201d Sarah Harmer performing Caribou\u2019s \u201cOdessa,\u201d Great Lake Swimmers performing Sarah Harmer\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m A Mountain,\u201d Arkells performing Owen Pallett\u2019s \u201cI Am Not Afraid\u201d and Joel Plaskett performing Feist\u2019s \u201cBittersweet Melodies.\u201d<\/p>\n