Now it’s time to recompense for what’s doneĬome come sit down on the fence in the sunĪt this point a soaring trumpet, played by session person Stefan Sporsén, swoops in from heaven, snatches the song and sends it into the stratosphere while Sandsten alternates drum rolls, stop times, offbeats, and every other fucking thing to continually switch things up. It goes without saying that Nick Drake’s original version of “Fly” (from 1971’s Bryter Layter) is quiet and acoustic, with a viola and harpsichord - played by John Motherfuckin’ Cale - gracefully filling in the spaces between his voice and the descending guitar lick that runs through the.Īnd at first, TSOOL honors that arrangement, with the guitars of Ian Person and Mattias Bärjed deftly winding around each other while Ebbot Lundberg sings the opening couplet.īut then, almost instantly, drummer Fredrik Sandsten kicks in with a double-down snare beat, and they start rocking it out as as Lundberg continues. And I’m glad, because their cover of his 1970 song “Fly” is one of the greatest covers I’ve ever heard in my life, even if they don’t so much cover “Fly” as smash it into a windscreen.Īnd that’s a compliment, because like a lot of other great covers - Jimi Hendrix’s “ All Along The Watchtower,” Hüsker Dü’s “ Eight Miles High,” The English Beat’s “ Tears of a Clown” - TSOOL somehow remained true to the original while at the same time transporting it to a totally new place. Luckily, the members of The Soundtrack of Our Lives were exactly the kind of fools to run that errand. Nick Drake was such a specific-sounding artist that covering him seems like a fools errand.
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