The Wind and the Wave

Austin folky pop rock duo leaning hard on covers.  Their most recent album, 2015's Covers One, is, not surprisingly, a collection of covers.  Pretty fun collection of songs, from the Orange is the New Black theme "You've Got Time," to R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)," to Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen," (that "White Winged Dove singing oooh, oooh, said oooh" song) and back around to a bluegrass-tastic Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me." "Ignition" made me grin - its a boss song in the first place, but having the cutesy little lady voice singing those lyrics is funny.  Here is a little Cindy Lauper:

But before that album of covers, they put out an album (From the Wreckage) of fun sounding country-tinged pop rock heavy on exceedingly long song titles.  Their shortest song title is also their most listened-to song on Spotify, "With Your Two Hands," clocking in at 1.3 million listens.

Not the studio version, but something called "The Marfa Takes."  Because you're not a legit Austin band unless you have gone to Marfa and made music in an old Airstream.  The song is damn good, and that version is pretty excellent as well.  I like the whole album, the singer's voice is lovely and the backing music is solidly well-done stuff.  They seem like they are having fun in making this music, not taking it so seriously that they've lost the joy of jamming out.  We'll see how the schedule pans out, but I'd go watch them.