There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Listen to their “Girl in Amber” below, as well as – speaking of surprising collaborations – the song the Lips did with Cave himself a few years ago.Ĭheck out many more great Nick Cave covers here. Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling. The collaboration dates back to 2018 and a meeting between a then-12-year-old Nell and The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne at one of the band’s shows in Calgary, Canada. I always found it difficult to step away from this particular song and sing it with its necessary remove, just got so twisted up in the words, I guess. This version of Girl in Amber is just lovely, I was going to say Nell Smith inhabits the song, but that’s wrong, rather she vacates the song, in a way that I could never do. I have a whole lot of time for The Flaming Lips - really like a lot of their stuff, have been an admirer since watching them play most evenings on the Lollapalooza Festival tour in ’94, maybe even sang with them there, and wrote a song for one of their records. I didn’t know about this project, so thank you for alerting me to it. Update: Cave himself just commented on the song in his newsletter The Red Hand files: It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.” I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. Smith said, “I still really can’t believe it, it was hard to get through all the songs but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of them that I kept going. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.”

With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. And, from the sounds of lead single “Girl in Amber,” it could actually be pretty great (something you can’t always say about these gimmicky Flaming Lips projects).Ĭoyne said in a statement, “It is always great to meet excited, young creative people. Their Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms, comes out October 25. The 13-year old in question is Nell Smith, a Flaming Lips superfan who met frontman Wayne Coyne at a show. And, in the newest incarnation, they’re releasing a Nick Cave tribute record…fronted by a 13-year old. They’ve covered Dark Side of the Moon…with Henry Rollins and some band called Stardeath and White Dwarfs. They’ve covered “A Day in the Life”…with Miley Cyrus. They performed a couple of shows in human-sized hamster balls at the start of this year, as only the Lips know how, but won’t tour the album properly until the end of this year.The Flaming Lips’ covers projects often come with weird twists. The Flaming Lips, meanwhile, released their 16th album American Head last year. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. We already know what Cave thinks of other people covering his work, having previously said: “I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. “Doing cover songs is a fun way to get things rolling along.” “I think Nell and I just wanted to start to make some music and see what would happen,” he said. It was Coyne who chose Cave’s music to record initially, telling CBC he didn’t expect Smith to know or have preconceived notions about him. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.” With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. According to Consequence of Sound, Coyne said, “It is always great to meet excited, young creative people.

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