Here’s a cover of The Pretenders’ “I Go To Sleep” by Anika from her self-titled album produced by BEAK (Geoff Barrow of Portishead and friends) released yesterday on Stones Throw Records.
I love the original song and The Pretenders and I love Portishead but I’m not sure I actually really like this. Others though?
Hit the jump for an alternate stream and download link for Anika’s version in case the above one (via the musebox) goes down.
Geoff Barrow of Portishead / Beak> produced Berlin/ Bristol/ London based artist Anika who’s self-titled debut LP is released today on Stones Throw Records.
The resulting collaboration is raw discordant beauty – a three way sonic palette featuring trippy 80’s post-punk, dub and 60’s girl pop that has seen early comparisons to Nico and The Slits.
Having just completed her first round of live gigs that included a sold out show in Paris (which caught the eyes and ears of tastemakers Colette and Agnes B) and was personally invited by The Horrors to play at their infamous Cave Club in London, (where the line was stretched around the corner for all eager to see this chanteuse live in performance), Anika is setting her sights towards the US for 2011. In the meantime you can catch a glimpse of Anika rehearsing the reggae infused “No Ones there” from the debut album HERE.
Solidly in the groundbreaking tradition of such deeply influential labels as New York’s ’80s No Wave nexus, 99 Records, the nine songs run the gamut from experimental rock (“Yang Yang”), to soulful country (“End of the World”), to folk (“Masters of War”), to pop (“I Go To Sleep”). This wide spectrum showcases Anika’s expansive range, prescient talents and uncanny ability to string together a cohesive, disparate collection of moods. Anika and Beak> bestow a mature array of reverb drenched ancient drum machine rhythms, while expertly teasing out the more haunting qualities in each incantation.
The music selected reflects Anika’s political stance, being both controversial and provocative as it’s Anika’s nature. As noted in a recent interview with the UK’s Stool Pigeon “We found the sweetest love songs we could find and made them sound like stalker songs, really evil. Using cover songs makes them a bit more provocative as you’re messing with people’s favorite songs and they’ll hate you!” Since the release of her album, her stint as a political journalist, has been put on hold as she focuses all her attention to writing songs and performing live.
ANIKA was recorded live in 12 days, with her three band mates, Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams, together in one room and no overdubs. In a recent interview featuring Geoff in XLR8R’s current issue themed ‘Building an Iconic Sound’… the producer shared, “Just having three musicians and a singer in a room is a pleasure. A band like Can would just gather, record and they would sound so balanced and at the same time capture all these dynamics. I’ve become fascinated with this. I love to hear a really amazingly written song that’s off kilter, and that doesn’t hide its wrongness.”
The resulting collaboration is a political/trashy/discordant/reggae/German/old school Bristol/punk-funk sound – all sown together into a collection of classic, bristling songs infused with other-worldliness. Indeed, it’s an experience in uneasy yet easy listening.
MP3: Anika – I Go To Sleep by stonesthrow
I love it. They kind of straddle just doing another cover of this song and distorting it into something unrecognizable. The pretenders version is not the original, btw (http://www.secondhandsongs.com/performance/30576)
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