the other day while i was at white wabbit records picking up a few cds(xiu xiu, kid 606 and casiotone for the painfully alone), i spotted this cd by nouvelle vague which looked interesting. it contains covers of lots of my favourite new wave and post punk bands. from their site:

Their idea was to forget the initial punk or new wave background of each song,keep simple fundamental chords,work with young singers who never heard the orginal versions,and make the quality of original songwriting happen in a completely different way.(bossa nova,jazz style and sixties pop)

i'll definately be going back to the shop to pick this up. from what i heard in the movie about the making of the album on their site, they seem to be covering similiar ground to prozak for lovers, but with a slightly different twist.