Many of the best collaborations are born of that adage about opposites attracting. Case in point, when Maura Weaver was looking to have a track from her recent Strange Devotion LP reworked by a local Cincinnati-based artist, she didn’t look to a like-minded indie-folk act like The Ophelias; instead, it’s D.S. Carlyle from gothic post-punk acts The Serfs and Crime of Passing who leant a hand to the reimagining of what was initially a slow, pensive ballad touched up with an alt-country twang. The resulting remix of “Museum Glass,” as you might imagine, skews far more industrial, with the faint sound of pedal steel overshadowed by the vibey immediacy of high-concept ’80s synth music.
“I got even more hyped when he said he was going to do ‘Museum Glass,’ because it is so sonically different sounding than the music he typically makes,” Weaver shares of the collaboration, which is very much still detectable under the coldwave-y sheen. For Carlyle’s part, it was the track’s stark contrast from the realm of post-punk that was most alluring: “It was probably the least obvious track to do.”
Check out the results below, and revisit the original version—and all of Strange Devotion—here.
