Daisy The Great – Lemon Seeds (Ray Bull Version)
New York City’s Daisy the Great will release their deluxe album The Rubber Teeth Talk With Friends this Friday, July 17.
The new record features 11 reworkings of the original songs on The Rubber Teeth Talk album (which was released on S-Curve Records a year ago), by the band with collaborators Frankie Cosmos, Harmony Tividad, Alexis Kraus of Sleigh Bells, Babehoven and more.
Today they unveil focus track “Lemon Seeds” (Ray Bull Version). Taking the original’s bittersweet portrait of a friendship unraveling, fellow Brooklyn two-piece Ray Bull reshape the song into a piano-driven indie-pop anthem.
“A lot of people tell us Ray Bull looks like the boy version of us – a tall blond and shorter brunette duo,” share Daisy the Great. “So we thought it’d be fun to reach out to them to do a version of Lemon Seeds. We love their take on this one. When we recorded the vocals together it felt like we were four clowns standing around a mic and we think the song captures that in the best way. It’s completely different from the original.”
Speaking on their version of “Lemon Seeds”, Ray Bull share: “We basically tried making it unrecognizable. We turned it into an ambient loop- at first, and felt the song could be reborn from that. It’s a song with a lot of great hooks so we thought it could take getting totally stripped for parts and still be strong. Eventually we started throwing a ton of stuff at it just trying to treat it like it was our own song and seeing where we could take it.”
Calling on a mash-up of friends and longtime artistic heroes, Daisy the Great’s The Rubber Teeth Talk With Friends presents creative reworkings of each song on their 2025 record The Rubber Teeth Talk. Occupying the sweet spot between cover and remix, the tracklist retains Mina Walker and Kelley Dugan’s distinctive vocals while handing over the musical direction to a cast of collaborators.
“We gave each contributing artist the reins,” share the duo. “It’s been fun to let go of the songs and allow others to make their own interpretations. To highlight a different side of the meaning of each song.”
Take the textured harmonies of “Dream Song”, deepened with the addition of Harmony Tividad, one half of the indie band Girlpool. Frankie Cosmos offers new introspection to “Dog”, an ode to summertime dissociation, while grunge-adjacent track “Ballerina” finds new life in Sipper’s pulsing electronic textures, and features vocals from Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss.
An inimitable record of edgy guitars, with spiraling synths and the duo’s uncanny melodies front and center, The Rubber Teeth Talk further cemented Daisy the Great as curious songwriters who can craft earworms from the smallest and largest moments of everyday life. Beyond the album, the band also recently completed a massive 20-stop North American Tour, where they performed new single “Can I Have A Moment.” They’ve also recently shared a cover of “Tom’s Diner” and an original track, “Blood Dye 40,” showcasing their signature “hocket” vocal technique – a style that has racked up over 210 million views across social media and become a staple of their live show.
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