For an interim record between Black Light Burns\u2019 debut Cruel Melody<\/i> and their upcoming follow-up, Cover Your Heart<\/i> is a pretty impressive effort. What\u2019s more impressive is that it is an album of covers that sounds just like a set of Black Light Burns songs. And considering the broad spectrum of songs considered for this record and how well they have been interpreted, Cover Your Heart <\/i>is a pretty solid effort.<\/p>\n
This is primarily an album of covers with extra instrumentals thrown in at the end, which don\u2019t do much either to enhance or destroy the album. The disc starts off with Lard\u2019s \u201cForkboy,\u201d which doesn\u2019t have to be tweaked much to make it seem like Black Light Burns\u2019 own. And even though the version here is as good as the original one (not having compromised the punch-kicking aggression), the record is truly remarkable for what follows, which is every bit as bizarre as it is amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cForkboy\u201d is followed by \u201cSo Alive\u201d (Love And Rockets) and then by Duran Duran\u2019s \u201cHungry Like A Wolf.\u201d If creating an industrial version of the goth-pop \u201cSo Alive\u201d sounds tricky, then covering the pop song \u201cHungry Like A Wolf,\u201d which represented all the silly hairstyles and reprehensibly garish fashion of the \u201880s, is a matter that\u2019s best left unspoken, let alone having been reconceived the way it has been done here. There are keyboards, but not the frivolous kind — more like the gloomy kind. Complete with a stellar guitar solo, this version not only sounds completely unlike the original, but might be a better version.<\/p>\n
With more surprises thrown in, like covers of \u201cRid Of Me\u201d (PJ Harvey) and \u201cOn The Bound\u201d (Fiona Apple), this album just gets more interesting with every song. Black Light Burns is treading on shaky ground by covering a sacrosanct PJ Harvey classic, but has done such a great job giving the song a completely new persona that Wes Borland (the man behind Black Light Burns) should not only be forgiven, but actually applauded. As is the case with \u201cOn The Bound,\u201d which sounds like a perfect industrial rock song until you learn that it was written by Fiona Apple.<\/p>\n
Although the fact that Black Light Burns has also covered a Sisters Of Mercy song (\u201cLucretia My Reflection\u201d) and a Stooges number (\u201cSearch And Destroy\u201d) doesn\u2019t sound surprising, it is how these numbers mingle so easily with the other oddball covers that\u2019s awesome about this album. No matter how freakish it might seem, Borland hasn\u2019t tried changing his music style to fit these unusual song choices. But he has changed them to fit his music style without not only not ruining them, but instead, executing his completely opposite rendition of them flawlessly. On the album press-release, Borland said, \u201cI hope the original artists hear what we have done and aren\u2019t too upset\u201d — this is modesty in greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":29491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8030],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-41071","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-black-light-burns","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41071"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41071"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}