Still Wave Premiere Single & Video for Their Cover of Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight”

With her unbelievable, even fanatical popularity, covering a Taylor Swift song seems like a tall task, but Still Wave proves that they are up for the challenge. Today marks the premiere of the music video for their cover of Swift’s “Fortnight.” This is a more recent Swift hit, appearing on her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department. Still Wave has taken the song, completely reinterpreted it, while doing the original justice.

Listeners should be able to appreciate the Italian band’s version of it, embodying it with a sense of urgency and more of a rock n’ roll edge. You’ll find “Fortnight” on the band’s new Post Atomic Love EP, which will be released June 6th via These Hands Melt. The release is a little treat for the fans, featuring three covers and one original.

Discussing their version of “Fortnight,” Still Wave describes it as:

“The perfect love/no love song: you are the center of my world and we are forever vs. run into you and talk about the weather: modern love is something you get, use and throw away. Majesty and melody to sing with tears in your eyes.”

The band is excitedly moving forward into a new chapter of their career. Post Atomic Love looks at love in the post-atomic age. This is an age defined by a perceived loss of identity, connection, and feeling. These tracks were specifically selected to best convey this message.

Outside of the Swift cover, the EP also features covers by Tears for Fears and Dissection. The EP is meant to be a medium to promote love and connection in an age of loneliness and isolation. It is an attempt to share some feelings “since the atomic bomb.” It ponders what love is in an age of desperation. Really, it is pondering a reality that is not all that unlike our current one. This EP is meant to be an interesting detour before Still Wave returns to their typical album cycle.

Post Atomic Love Track Listing:

1. Watch Me Bleed (Tears for Fears cover)
2. Fortnight (Taylor Swift cover)
3. Starwound – acoustic version (Still Wave original)
4. Where Dead Angels Lie (Dissection cover)

Still Wave ‘Post Atomic Love’ album artwork