Thurston Moore shares his rendition of New Order's "Leave Me Alone," the closing track from their 1983 album Power Corruption and Lies. (Dan Bejar's Destroyer recorded a cover in 2012, too.) The song will appear as the B-Side on three different 7" singles Moore will release on November 8th through his Daydream Library Series. The A-Sides include “Pollination,” “Spring Swells,” and “Three Graces”, all live recordings of the Thurston Moore Group collected over the past year.
Moore covered the song while on a residency in Salford, the area in Manchester, England where both New Order's Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner were raised.
"Salford is the only place I would dare cover a New Order song, with local musicians and local pints," Moore said in an interview with The Quietus. "It was just one of those rare occasions, where something I wouldn't normally do was done just for fun, and in homage and respect to the place. Anyway, it was a sweet time and recorded without any fuss, and maybe it worked out at least for this B-side. Since these 7"s are artist limited editions, we decided to make it the B-side for all three singles, so people can actually get hold of a copy. We will make sure the release is in Salford, too."
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