Following her critically-acclaimed, eponymous album of last year, Holly Miranda will next week release a covers EP entitled Party Trick via Dangerbird.  Miranda has now released her cover of Sufjan Stevens’ devastatingly sad and beautiful song No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross from Carrie & Lowell.  While Miranda’s version isn’t a complete re-imagining of the song, her languid and sultry vocals bring appropriately world-weary elements to it. And make it better.

How’s that old song go again?  Oh yeah, “Take a sad song, and make it better.” Well done, Holly Miranda.