Someone leading the PopUp Chorus in North Carolina has recently been picking some particularly great unheralded songs for the PopUps to sing.  PopUp Chorus is held in Durham, NC by Community Chorus Project.  Check out below as first the PopUp performs Lost In The Trees’ fine Daunting Friend.  The song is off of Lost In The Trees album Past Life, a stupendously underrated album which will indubitably appear on our Best Albums of 2014 (highly recommended; full review soon come).  After the two PopUp videos, listen to Lost In The Trees studio version of the song and watch them perform it for WNRN.  Beauty.  The song’s lyrics are at bottom.

After watching the PopUps perform Daunting Friend, check out the PopUp’s well-done cover of what will undoubtedly end up as one of our Best Songs of 2104, Sylvan Esso’s Coffee.

Daunting Friend

“you’re such a daunting friend
you sing to me under your bed
a melody’s rotten
all your spirling hair
I will meet you on the stairs
the angels are speaking

so I will lie
in your shadow
out where the oceans are dark
we’ll never hunt alone
so long
out where our eyes are all older
our memories have grown

we’ll float around the town
chasing all that beauty we’re after
a mirror repeating
saying you’re alright
sing with all the color of night
our love’s always changing
like angels speaking

so I will lie
in your shadow
out where the oceans are dark
we’ll never hunt alone

and rise up
arise
light of our own
our armored moon will burn bright
and fold us in her arms

I let you slip away
you let me slip away
forever
when our eyes are all older
our memories stay”