To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, top music blog Stereogum has put together a new version of the classic album, featuring radically reworked versions by up-and-coming indie artists.
You can listen to the whole thing here. It’s not all great – no-one really needs to hear Cold War Kids bellowing their way charmlessly through Electioneering.
But there are moments of genuine beauty, too. Exit Music (For A Film) and No Surprises are both sensitively handled, teasing out new subtleties in the over-familiar originals.
But the pick of the bunch has to be My Brightest Diamond’s fragile take on Lucky. Listen to it here. My Brightest Diamond, aka arty Brooklyn folktronica artist Shara Worden, is a former opera student, and it shows in the startling vocal control she brings to bear on one of Radiohead’s most moving songs.
10:35 AM | 11/07/2007
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