As Depeche Mode covers go, "But Not Tonight" is surprisingly raucous, kicking off the latest Seven Color Sky CD with a hail of distorted guitar and an over-caffeinated snare fill.

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With a laugh, guitarist Scott Bedillion says, "It's kind of funny. Our least wussy song is a Depeche Mode cover."

They've been doing the song at shows since drummer Frank Postava, who'd played with bassist Marc Turina in the Top Ten Idols, joined the band.

"We used to cover 'But Not Tonight' in our old band," says Turina. "And when Frankie joined the band, I suggested to Scott that we maybe try to resurrect it. The version we do is a little bit different than what we had done in Top Ten Idols, but it's pretty rocking, a lot more guitar-driven than the actual song. Which wasn't guitar-driven at all."

"But Not Tonight" and a new original, "Goodbye, Bright Sky," were recorded with studio time they won two years ago in something called the Joker Rock-Off. Those songs are joined on "SCS Presents ..." by live versions of "Fade" and "She Said," as recorded on WXDX.

They had 100 copies of the EP made to sell at shows, but, mostly, it's an online thing.

"It's really expensive to actually put out a physical album," says Bedillion. "But it's really, really free to put it out online."

Online is where you'll also find a dark but danceable new remix of another old song, "Just How Shy a Girl Can Be," by Peter Guellard of MACE fame.

"I think it sounds a little like the Pet Shop Boys," Bedillion says. "When they would remix Blur songs, that's kind of the feel they had."

The next step is another full-length album.

"The material's there," Turina says.

There's even talk of bringing Psychedelic Fur John Ashton, who produced "The Better Looking EP," back for more.

"It's just a matter of working it out schedule-wise," Bedillion says, "'cause he's a busy fella. My understanding is he's working on some new Furs material. So I guess he's probably busier than normal."

Even if they don't hook up, Bedillion says, they know "the Ashton tricks" now.

What that means, primarily, is they've learned to take their time and "noodle around" at home.

"That's what we did with these songs," Bedillion explains. "We'd record the basic tracks and it would be three months, and then we'd go back in and do some overdubs and take, like, three more months, and go back and finish recording and start mixing. Even the last time we went in, one of the breaks in 'But Not Tonight,' where I do the weird wah-guitar thing, we did that the very last time we were in the studio mixing because we had something lame-sounding there. I just kind of started screwing around with the wah with it here at home and thought, 'Oh yeah, that's gonna do it.' "