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Bleachers has hired a bunch of female singers for a new version of their "Strange Desire" album. The band has just released "Terrible Thrills Vol. 2", which features female vocalists like Charli XCX, Tinashe, Carly Rae Jepsen and more reworking songs off Jack Antonoff and Co.'s debut set.

The covers album came as a follow-up to "Terrible Thrills Vol. 1" which saw Scarlett Johansson, Alia Shawkat and Tegan and Sara among others covering tracks by Antonoff's other band Steel Train's 2010 album. The new record is available for free download on Google Play.

"I love female voices," Antonoff explained his latest project in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday, September 28. "I wish I had one. When I write songs I typically hear things in a female voice and then match it an octave lower so I can hit the notes...I like things sounding like a male version of what in my head was a female-sung song."

"The process making this was all over the place," he continued. "Some artists fully recorded and recreated the versions, some I worked with them on. The collection is completely bizarre thing for me to listen to because it feels so personal as to how I write. It feels like the part of my process that I'm supposed to keep to myself or something and hearing it in headphones is utterly strange and wonderful."

Of why he decided to put out the record for free, he added, "This project took a year and tons of recording sessions and through that we all felt very proud that something as intense as a full album could be given to the people who bought the original work as a further look into it. I've loved how the strange desire record cycle has grown and changed constantly over the past year and a half. As I write this from the studio where I'm making the second Bleachers album, I see 'Terrible Thrills' as the final chapter for 'Strange Desire'."