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Warpaint / Sister Crayon
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Description: | Split 7" of Bowie Covers on Manimal RED VINYL! |
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| Format: | 7" (vinyl) | |
| Genre(s): | Indie Rock | |
| Label: | Manimal Vinyl | |
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£3.49
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
...according to our Clinton on 27 August 2010.
Warpaint are the lot that Brian likes. Well he's a red blooded male, they are attractive ladies with a predeliction for on stage wind machines - who can blame him? The pressing plant have cocked up the labels so the A side is labelled the B side and vice versa. Idiots. Can't anyone get anything right? Which makes it even more confusing as its a split single but strangely both bands sound the same. Warpaints 'Ashes to Ashes' and its extremely faithful to the original. Again like my whines last week about the same songs being covered over and over I wonder if theres any need for this. I mean Keane all but covered it a couple of years ago. But as its played slower it does have a certain melancholy about it and hearing lovely lady voices rather than the quivery Bowie delivery does definitely add something. They've definitely manage to pull it off with aplomb, Brian. There's a bit of Hope Sandoval in the vocal delivery and something of the XX in the playing of Sister Crayon who tackle another Bowie track 'The Bewley Brothers' on the other side (the B side as we call it in the trade). This song is unknown to me so its of more interest despite the really annoying synth which snakes through the track.
This will be Warpaints very first UK single, both tracks are taken from the double CD set “ We Were So Turned On” : A Tribute To David Bowie which is coming out in September on Manimal. Warpaint cover “Ashes to Ashes” and Sister Crayon does a fine take on “The Bewlay Brothers”. This 7” will be limited to 1000 copies (900 on red vinyl and 100 special black ones which will be distributed randomly). The album has already been all over Pitchfork and NME.com so expect and huge amount of press on its release. There will be another limited 7” taken from the album later on this year. All profits from the album will be donated to Warchild. War Child is a charity that simply helps children affected by war across the globe no matter what border they inhabit. A charity that Bowie makes no secret about supporting. Other artists on the album include Devendra Banhart (Megapuss), Vivian Girls and Carla Bruni, Duran Duran, ex-Slits Viv Albertine and legendary avant-garde bassist/musician Mick Karn.
