I’m working more or less around the clock until I leave for New York on Thursday, so forgive me if I’m a little light with the posting this week. But I wanted to quickly point out that there’s a new track by Hungarian band The Unbending Trees featuring Tracey Thorn. It’s torchy and lovely, and streaming on her Myspace now.
In general, I think Thorn is a lady with pretty amazing taste, and I’m not just saying that because she’s recently covered the Magnetic Fields and the Pet Shop Boys. I remember back when I was fifteen and the Everything But The Girl website was just text laid over a pink leopard print .GIF. I used to avidly follow all of her book recommendations. Which is how I discovered Philip Roth, and A Very Long Engagement, and a lot of other things that I thought were very beautiful and deep, not to mention Ben Watt’s memoir about his crazy surgery.
Her Myspace is currently also streaming two covers, a version of the Velvet Underground’s Femme Fatale from her 1982 solo album and a take on The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game (a different version of which was on last week’s Mixtape–oh, the synchronicity!!) that first appeared on, of all ungodly things, the Batman Forever soundtrack.
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