Michael Nau introduced me to Mr Husband a couple years ago and I was smitten. To celebrate PIAPTK's first non-lathe cut Pressed Vinyl Mr Husband release, Michael and Kenny dug a long lost collaborative cover of Opal's My Only Friend out of the vault. The original plan was to just do a clear square one sided 7" with a foldover cover, but after Kenny sent me the artwork and I was looking at the foldover, I got a wild hair up my ass, made some stencils and four hours later had 125 stencilled discs, which got cut the next morning.

From Kenny (Mr Husband):
I can’t remember exactly who requested it but I was tasked with an “80’s” cover and I’m 100% sure they wanted something on the Tears for Fears / Thompson Twins / Chillwave spectrum. But being a life-long contrarian I chose this Opal song, a poignant suggestion from the great curator and lecturer Ian Nagoski of Canary Records (who was my pal and I was his bartender). Anyway By the time we made this recording somewhere around 2012 I had known Michael for a decade. Over the years we had recorded together a few times and were already comfortable with each other in that space which made this session a real pleasure. We met in the morning at my friend’s studio where I had been mixing records for local bands. I set up two mics in front of the couch. We had a little coffee, had a little chat, and then recorded 2 takes. This was the second take I believe. We overdubbed some piano and chimey bits and called it a day. The original is beautiful and hard to improve upon but we hope you enjoy the gentle ride on this version. RIP Roback. Love to Opal.