Boston four-piece Future Teens dropped an excellent LP last year, one weepy enough to conjure up even the most buried pangs of high school heartache. Today, the emo outfit returned with a new EP, Sensitive Sessions, which offers hushed and intimate renditions of songs from Breakup Season. And, in keeping with the band’s Extremely Online bent, they’ve rounded out the collection with a cover of a cut that’s become more meme than song. Of course we’re talking about “All Star.”
“We basically wanted to see how drastically we could change the song,” vocalist/guitarist Daniel Radin said in a press release. “It’s such a classic song, bordering on meme, so we figured we’d try to reframe it so people might be able to listen to the lyrics and structure in a new way.”