OK Go Share Two New Versions of Their “This Will Be Our Year” Cover

The new EP follows the band’s 2004 cover of the Zombies track.
OK Go Share Two New Versions of Their “This Will Be Our Year” Cover

The new EP follows the band’s 2004 cover of the Zombies track.

Words: Jesse Cline

photo by Gus Powell

January 22, 2021

OK Go has a long history with The Zombies’ 1968 single “This Will Be Our Year”—they covered it way back in 2004 for a MoveOn.org benefit comp, re-released it a year later as a B-side to their Oh No single “A Million Ways,” lent that version to the soundtrack for the 2006 film John Tucker Must Die, and reworked it as a bonus track for their 2010 LP Of the Colour of the Sky. And today we’re getting two more versions via a two-track EP comprised of a hi-fi version of the recording and a lo-fi, solo version.

“‘This Will Be Our Year’ is one of my favorite songs of all time, and it’s more timely than ever,” the band’s Damian Kulash shared in a statement this morning. “After such a catastrophic year—so much that we rely on just crumbling beneath our feet—it feels good to add a drop to the world’s bucket of hope and optimism. Like the song says, this year was a long time coming, and I pray we look back on it as the time when things got better.”

Watch the video for the lo-fi version below, and check out the whole EP here.