Waiting for the gift of sound & vision

From your lips she drew a hallelujah: So let go: A Masked & Covered Mix, Vol. 1

Last Goodbye (cover) ~ Natalie Merchant
Something (cover) ~ Jim Sturgess
Chasing Cars (cover) ~ Vitamin String Quartet
Let Go (cover) ~ Boys Like Girls
Teardrop (cover) ~ Newton Faulkner
He's a Rebel (cover) ~ My Morning Jacket
Jimmy (cover) ~ Of Montreal
Use Me (cover) ~ Pete Yorn & Kinky
Use Somebody (cover) ~ Bat For Lashes
Sound & Vision (cover) ~ Franz Ferdinand
Souvenir (cover) ~ Amiina
My Hero, Zero (cover) ~ The Lemonheads
Time to Pretend (cover) ~ Gareth Pearson
Bad Moon Rising (cover) ~ Rasputina
Sweet Child O' Mine (cover) ~ Taken By Trees
Mad World (cover) ~ Gary Jules
Romeo & Juliet (cover) ~ The Killers
Mr. Blue Sky (cover) ~ Lily Allen
Hallelujah (cover) ~ Rufus Wainwright

Masked & Covered Mix ~ Zipped Up

I hope its gonna make you notice someone like me

Use Somebody (original, video) ~ Kings Of Leon
Use Somebody (cover, video) ~ Bat For Lashes

Natasha Khan/Bat For Lashes' cover of Kings of Leon's recent 'Use Somebody' is a work of stark beauty and vulnerability. I love the organ in the background, and the tambourine. It reminds me of the Doors albums I borrowed from my Mom growing up, and the way I found their songs to feel something close to holy, sensual and intimate.

Khan's version gifts the song a more timeless, stripped down feel - which also adds to the plea of loneliness that the lyrics provide. Where the original soars as a post-modern power ballad, Khan's cover brings it in closer, holds itself with arms wrapped around sadness, and raw emotion.

I love both versions.

Zipped Up

(song of the day, cover Sunday)