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Mandy Moore has mined more than three decades of pop music for the set of cover songs that make up the aptly titled Coverage, due in September on Epic. The teen singer has completed recording and mixing her third album with producer John Fields (Andrew W.K.), with the first single due in August.
Among the Seventies chestnuts that Moore has recorded are Elton John's "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" and Todd Rundgren's "Can We Still Be Friends," along with an unspecified Cat Stevens cover. The Eighties are represented by XTC's "Senses Working Overtime," the Waterboys' "The Whole of the Moon" and Joan Armatrading's "Drop the Pilot."

"Coverage is something so special to me," Moore said via Web post. "Something I could not be more proud of. A project that is full of passion like I've never experienced before. It is a compilation of some of the most incredible music I have ever heard in my life, and the fact that I got to record these songs is still unimaginable to me. This is a big step for me, this record."

In addition to the roster of songwriters, Moore has enlisted Evan Dando, Semisonic's Dan Wilson and the Rembrandts to add vocals to the album, with the New Power Generation band providing some musical muscle. Coverage will be Moore's follow-up to her self-titled 2001 release, which posted solid, if unspectacular, sales. But with Mandy Moore, the singer chose to separate herself from the teen pop pack, eschewing its hyper-produced sound for a more varied pop palette.

Moore has placed snippets of three of the Coverage songs -- "Can We Still Be Friends," "Senses Working Overtime" and "Drop the Pilot" -- on mandymoore.com for fans to preview, with the promise of additional sound clips.

As for Moore's acting career, she is about to leave for a three-month film shoot in Europe. In the meantime, she'll have a starring role in the summer release, How to Deal.

Say what now?

npg goes teeny-bop...?


















everybody...run. now.

it's hard not to like mandy moore after watching "a walk to remember"... i for one am glad this isn't a joke

p.s. just out of curiousity, did you find this story by checking to see if my 7/11 story was correct? haha... i think folks aren't believing this/responding to it...

suomynona said:

Eh, no.

maybe the reporter was just being inaccurate and he (or she) said NPG instead of Michael B and Sonny T.

If you go to her site you can listen to samples and the drums kinda sound like Michael B.

One thing's for sure it's definitely not John Blackwell. He really has a distinctive sound and that ain't it!

The Eighties are represented by XTC's "Senses Working Overtime," the Waterboys' "The Whole of the Moon"
what the hell it's a joke isn't it? even if I think that Andy Partrige (XTC) will laugh at this - next JLo will do a cover of The Clash's Spanish Bomb

QstnOfU said:

I am still upset about what Mandy Moore said on the Oscar show though happy to see she is not as obessed these days.

BrianFellows said: