Headless Heroes reinvigorate the art of the cover version with their current album, 'The Silence Of Love', a collection of songs originally recorded by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Daniel Johnston and the Jesus and Mary Chain, amongst others. Standout examples include Johnston's 'True Love', which is turned into a wispy electric number, retaining its other worldly-ness through the brilliant, wraithlike vocals of Californian folk musician Alela Diane, whilst the moodiness of the JAMC's 'Just Like Honey' is transformed into a moderately upbeat alt-country staple. Absolutely essential listening for fans of the aforementioned bands or just curious music lovers, head to their MySpace for a taster of the tracks.
http://www.myspace.com/denofheroes
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Here we go everybody, it's time for the CMU Track Of The Year vote to really get going. Thanks for all the votes that have been submitted already. We'll be featuring some of your votes so far here in the Daily each day until w/c 15 December, when we'll announce the overall top ten and let you vote a second time, for your favourite from that list. Here's today's votes...
Glasvegas - Geraldine
2008 has been a great year for new music and albums. My track of the year is 'Geraldine' by Glasvegas. It's rare that a track can evoke such a picture in your head of where a band are from and what they are about. It's almost like listening to that track, and the album, you know where Glasvegas went to school, their fears and their emotions. I haven't felt like that since I heard 'A Thousand Trees' by The Stereophonics in 1997.
Dan Waite, Director - Talent And Music, MTV
Scars On Broadway - They Say
An awesome bombast of proper rock. If played at the appropriate volume level of 11, it could liquefy a jamboree of Scouting For Girls fans at 100m.
Dan Morfitt, Presenter, Kerrang! Radio
If you haven't already, get your vote in. Just email us your favourite track released this year and a couple of sentences saying why you love it to [email protected].