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Our pals over at Cokemachineglow had the rather brilliant idea of soliciting folks like David Thomas Broughton and Rock Plaza Central to perform the unlikeliest of covers for their forthcoming "CMG Fantasy Podcast Vol. 1". And yes, by some devilish machinations, they managed to get the latter to cover Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"-- you know, the one that divided the JT ranks until "My Love" sailed in and brought everybody together again.

Slowing things down to a trot, pulling out some woozy horns for the second verse, and wisely dumping all of Timbaland's bridge-barking, RPC imbues what was a sleazy come-on track with the same sense of foreboding that colors much of the Pitchfork Recommended Are We Not Horses? Or consider it this way: if Timberlake's beckoning you back to his place for a little whoopy-makin', RPC's Chris Eaton sounds like he's luring you back for some serial killin'. Yikes.

Plus you can practically see him rolling his eyes as he spouts quips like "V.I.P." and "Look at those hips." CMG kindly lent us the track to share with y'all, so have a listen by clicking below.

The covers podcast goes live next week. Swing over to cokemachineglow.com then to check out "SexyBack", along with Broughton covering Cat Power's "The Greatest", new Anticon signing SJ Esau doing (God help us) another cover of "Crazy", Ned Collette taking on TV on the Radio's "Hours", Shugo Tokumaru handling Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks" and Daniel Johnston's "To Go Home", and offbeat selections from the Red Giants, Monster Bobby, Flying Lotus, Emperor X, and more surprises.