Jack Antonoff, founder and mastermind behind the new to run indie-alt band Bleachers, has recorded and released an all female vocal version of the bands debut album “Strange Desire.” 

Antonoff says, “I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice. The whole heart of this idea is for people to hear the album the way I hear it in my head, reinterpreted by the artists who sort of inspired it to be written in the first place.”

The mash up includes female power artists like; Sia, Sara Bareilles, and Carly Rae Jepsen, just to name a few. Many of the songs were completely redone and rerecorded by the artists themselves, without the help of Antonoff. Antonoff admits that it was difficult to hear some of the more personal songs remastered and sung by someone other than himself, such as Tinashe’s rendition of “I Wanna Get Better.” But says that he loved hearing a different twist on a song that he had previously had stamped in his head as sounding one way. 

I believe that that very idea is the reason this album rendition was made. To create a different way of looking at, what happen to already be fantastic, songs. It’s hard to imagine someone taking the initiative, time, and effort into putting something like this together; but Antonoff does just that. He began trying to piece this album together in 2014, just months after the original album was released. Though this idea has been one with time in the making, Jack posts on his twitter that “Terrible Thrills” will be the end of the “Strange Desire” era. While it’s disappointing to see this era come to an end, I think we can all be hopeful for the future of Bleachers.