Thanks for Everything in Bloomington, MN

Stephan Jenkins
designed
Thanks for Everything
, a seven-song covers EP that doubles as a benefit for Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum, as a way to "amplify" music he and the rest of
Third Eye Blind
find inspiring. His choices are telling.
Jenkins
primarily concentrates on peers who are considered a bit edgier than
3EB
: stark neo-folkie
Bon Iver
, genre-bending indie-R&B icon
Santigold
, shambling Brit-rocker
Pete Doherty
, malevolent imps
Queens of the Stone Age
, and upcomers
Happy Diving
and
Chastity Belt
. To this hip mix, a cover of
Tim Buckley
's "Song to the Siren" is added. It's an eclectic mix and, in
's hands, they all sound like
: strident, earnest, urgent, and square.
play for the rafters and
sings in a straight line, so whatever idiosyncrasies that were in the originals are now flattened out, so these eccentric selections seem like clean, polished commercial rock from the glory days of Y2K. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine