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Welcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
It's Second Sunday Slowly where the goth goes downtempo. This week's feature comes to us by way of another of my scene peers, DJ Static, who runs a goth night in the Boston area that does a monthly focus on downtempo tracks like these. In December, he turned me on to this witchy/wave remake of a dark trip-hop gem sure to lay one's heart so bare.:
Buried Things ft. Shari Vari - Cowboys (Portishead)
Portishead's self-titled second album was released in September 1997. Cowboys was issued as a limited test single a few months prior to the album's release, but for whatever reason was not one of its three official widespread single releases. While their music is trip-hop at its core, mainstream music press regarded the album as "gothic." Hardcore goths might disagree with the description though much of Potishead's music has been adopted into the culture. In a 1998 Interview, Portishead's Adrian Utley said, "We definitely wanted the album to sound rougher." He continued, "We were a lot angrier making the record anyways, so we made everything -- it was more vicious sounding." He went on to identify Cowboys as a specific example of that mindset.
In September 2017, Knifesex released a tribute compilation curated from various labelmates and adjacent friends to honor the 20th anniversary of the album. So Bare Is My Heart: A Tribute To Portishead S/T" is a track by track remake with more witchy, dark, and modernized styles featuring such acts as Primitive Heart, Public Memory, A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, and PRIMA PRIMO. Buried Things, a relatively new dark wave/ambient act, took the album's first track Cowboys, with Void Vision's Shari Vari on vocals and additional instrumental support from members of The Harrow and Gotham City Riot.
Portishead's version was already haunting enough. Buried Things layers the mood with possibly even more menace, drone, and aggression while maintaining that sense of discontented yearning. It does the track tremendous justice and is a harshly rendered thing of beauty. The full album is available for free lossless download on Soundcloud.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century with another down-tempo treat, one that comes during a month in which the rare astrological event it mentions occurs.
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
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I'm spinning two more Friday nights in January, and as usual, my schedule has the details and you're welcome to join if you like and can! ಠ‿↼
(Involved in a weekend long convention at the time of this writing, apologies for the brevity.)
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 07 - Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Dec 24 - Misters of Circe - Clanging Chimes of Doom (originally Do The Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid)
Dec 17 - Armageddon Dildos - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
Dec 10 - Noir - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
It's Second Sunday Slowly where the goth goes downtempo. This week's feature comes to us by way of another of my scene peers, DJ Static, who runs a goth night in the Boston area that does a monthly focus on downtempo tracks like these. In December, he turned me on to this witchy/wave remake of a dark trip-hop gem sure to lay one's heart so bare.:
Buried Things ft. Shari Vari - Cowboys (Portishead)
Portishead's self-titled second album was released in September 1997. Cowboys was issued as a limited test single a few months prior to the album's release, but for whatever reason was not one of its three official widespread single releases. While their music is trip-hop at its core, mainstream music press regarded the album as "gothic." Hardcore goths might disagree with the description though much of Potishead's music has been adopted into the culture. In a 1998 Interview, Portishead's Adrian Utley said, "We definitely wanted the album to sound rougher." He continued, "We were a lot angrier making the record anyways, so we made everything -- it was more vicious sounding." He went on to identify Cowboys as a specific example of that mindset.
In September 2017, Knifesex released a tribute compilation curated from various labelmates and adjacent friends to honor the 20th anniversary of the album. So Bare Is My Heart: A Tribute To Portishead S/T" is a track by track remake with more witchy, dark, and modernized styles featuring such acts as Primitive Heart, Public Memory, A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, and PRIMA PRIMO. Buried Things, a relatively new dark wave/ambient act, took the album's first track Cowboys, with Void Vision's Shari Vari on vocals and additional instrumental support from members of The Harrow and Gotham City Riot.
Portishead's version was already haunting enough. Buried Things layers the mood with possibly even more menace, drone, and aggression while maintaining that sense of discontented yearning. It does the track tremendous justice and is a harshly rendered thing of beauty. The full album is available for free lossless download on Soundcloud.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century with another down-tempo treat, one that comes during a month in which the rare astrological event it mentions occurs.
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I'm spinning two more Friday nights in January, and as usual, my schedule has the details and you're welcome to join if you like and can! ಠ‿↼
(Involved in a weekend long convention at the time of this writing, apologies for the brevity.)
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 07 - Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Dec 24 - Misters of Circe - Clanging Chimes of Doom (originally Do The Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid)
Dec 17 - Armageddon Dildos - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
Dec 10 - Noir - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies