Allo Darlin’ can do no wrong in our book. As we’ve written, earlier this year they released one of the (if not THE) best albums of 2012, Europe. In honor of the success of Europe, Rough Trade Records will soon release the band’s Covers EP featuring songs by AC/DC, The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, Eux Autres, The Go-Betweens (natch) and Darren Hayman. Check out below the band’s touching and incendiary cover of Hayman’s Wu-Tang Clan.  Check out the cover’s spot-on singing by Elizabeth Morris set against the incendiary guitar playing of Paul Rains and drumming of Michael Collins.  And go pre-order the EP HERE.  The song’s lyrics follow the song below.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the song’s lyrics of a lass from London seeking solace and escape through the music of the Staten Island hip-hop group, Wu Tang Clan, are given added charge (see the videos at bottom by Casey Neistat featuring Wu-Tan Clang’s song Can It Be All So Simple).  And please do donate to the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts HERE or at your preferred non-profit.

“She dreams of Staten Island
She never ever dreams of Walthamstow
Her friends are getting married
Getting their hair cut like Jill Dando
She hopes that Terry Soams won’t ask her out tonight
For the fourth time
She wants to be alone

With the curtains drawn and the stereo on
She swings her hips and dances to the Wu-Tang Clan
And the sadness ebbs away now
She shuts her eyes and throws her head up high
It’s better when there’s no one around
And she’s feeling something real now

And on the train home everyone moves away
Because she stinks of work
And she does, and she knows so it doesn’t hurt
And in her mind she pictures ODB
In his prison cell alone
It’s not wrong to want to be alone
She would tell him so

With the curtains drawn and the stereo on
She swings her hips and dances to the Wu-Tang Clan
And the sadness ebbs away now
She shuts her eyes and throws her head up high
It’s better when there’s no one around
And she’s feeling something real now

And RZA, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck
Golden Arms will hold the time out of harm
In the council flat tonight
And the thought hits her at 105 BPM
That sometimes for a second
She believes that everything will be alright
Everything will be alright
Everything will be alright
Everything will be alright”

Hurricane Sandy on Bikes in NYC from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.