Caturday Covers: What is an apistat?

Xiu Xiu’s Apistat Commander is one of those songs that you never actually listened to for like two years because it takes so long to kick in that you always instinctually skip it, and then one day you’re standing at an intersection and you’re too lazy to fish out your iPod and press forward so you listen to the whole song for the first time, maybe with the volume a little too high, and you realize finally that the song contains this perfect moment where, like, the sun suddenly bursts out of a cloudy sky but only for 30 seconds before there’s like this terrible, Hepatitis-infected rainstorm that lasts for the rest of your life.

Apistat Commander, covered by Sunset Rubdown. This is what the song would sound like if it were a really good rock song made by a band that didn’t print t-shirts with the phrase “Fun is for assholes” on them.

Apistat Commander, covered by something called “Parts & Labor.” I don’t know anything about this band, but if their normal songs sound like this they are probably not very good.