Woot - another installment of Stu Reid Under The Covers, that surprising and saucy minx that we haven't heard from in a bit.
We'll kick things off with Katy Perry, everyone's favorite and/or least favorite fake bi-curious singer. Here, she shows off her surprisingly impressive vocal prowess on a cover of Sam Sparro's great song "Black and Gold". Perry shows that she has potential to be more than just a pretty face and contagious pop songstress. I feel like in some alternate universe, Katy Perry could be a Kelly Clarkson type figure. Weird. Anyway, the track is from the Sweetheart covers compilation that Starbucks put out a while ago, and it's dope.
The next cover is a bit of a spacier and less crisp track, from the English band Kyte. Here they slow down Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" to give it a totally new feel. This song really grew on me, and I have come to like it quite a bit. My only gripe - they leave out the "boom boom boom" from the original, one of the song's highlights, if you ask me. A great cover, nonetheless.
Finally, a cover of "Paper Planes", the ubiquitous M.I.A. track. I feel like the buzz/backlash has died down a bit for this track, so it's a good time to post up a pretty great bell+drum machine cover. Panda Riot preserves the backbone of the song and gets rid of pretty much everything else. Definitely sounds a little bit at times like it was made in GarageBand, but it's still a refreshing take on a song that's been beaten into the ground like 3 times over. Word.
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