Hedra Rowan’s “You Don’t Love Me When I Cry” cover is a quiet-loud showstopper
thefader.comThe FADER’s transgender charity covers compilation FADER & Friends Volume 1 is out now, available exclusively on Bandcamp until December 1, 2023.
100% of the proceeds go towards the Transgender Law Center, Mermaids, and Rainbow Railroad. Throughout the month of November, we’re speaking to the artists who contributed to the 44-song collection about the songs they covered.
Hedra Rowan’s music often tends toward the abstract. There are certainly traces of her experimental ethos in her cover of Laura Nyro’s quiet-loud ballad “You Don’t Love Me When I Cry,” but she uses a light touch here.
As Rowan’s rendition progresses, it starts to diverge from the original at an accelerating pace, her voice fracturing and its shards phasing in and out of sync before the track closes with a show-stopping coda that’s better experienced than described.
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