I have already written about INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart” – truly, I daresay, one of the great pop songs of the last 25 years – so let me just add that this recent reinterpretation rocks my socks, it’s so gorgeous:

See? Gorgeous. I’m almost surprised I like it, since anything approaching the twinkly or girly or precious turns me right off, but this strikes me as a genuinely magical musical moment.

Annie Clark records as St. Vincent, and since seeing this I’ve been half tempted to go look up her other stuff, but I’ve gotta say: There’s some special chemistry to this single thing, and I don’t know that AC/SV on her own will necessarily do it for me. She may well be great — but I find this such a gem that I almost don’t want to know or hear anything else about her.

Oh my goodness, I don’t know what else to say, I just love this so much. May accomplish nothing today other than hitting replay on that clip.

PS: It’s worth knowing, if you didn’t already (and I didn’t), that Beck has this fun Record Club thing going, wherein he and other musicians reinterpret classic albums. Awesome.

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