Summer jam artiste Mpho’s debut album Pop Art won’t be out for months yet, but that doesn’t mean she’s not keeping busy. To sate our thirst after listening to Box N Locks approximately three kajillion times in the past two months, the British/South African singer’s taken to the Youtube to present us with a moderately acoustic cover of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill. With the aid of just a keyboard, a drummer, and a drummer’s backpack, Mpho transforms Kate’s original* from a dated-sounding dance tune for gay wiccans into something a little more soulful and less otherworldly, despite making only very minimal changes to the vocal delivery. Sorry Placebo, but this is now the only cover of this song that I want to hear (besides Kiki and Herb’s, of course.)
Since Kate Bush revivalism is the #2 trend of the year (after disco revivalism), it’s not actually that very surprising that the woman touted as the newer, more ethnic Santogold would choose to cover this song. But I don’t care how shrewd a commercial move it is, I’m still wicked excited right now.
[via ArjanWrites]
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