One Day We're Going To Live In Paris

It's rare to stumble across something so haunting, so incredibly poignant and fragile as the voice of Catherine A.D. I've been aware of her for quite a while, but never really took the time to listen properly to her. I don't want to lump her into a scene, but she has a similar fragility in her voice as Polly Scattergood, who was one of the standout acts of Latitude Festival '08. Music Week called her "ethereal, brooding and untameabley crucial listening", I just call her the dangerous shadow of female alt-folk. Apparently her new video will feature the ritual burning of the possessions of various contributors ex-boyfriends. Edgy. This cover just proves how far it's possible to move the already much-lauded material of Friendly Fires, demonstrated aptly enough by Au Revoir Simone's cover of Paris (listen on Spotify). The familiar electro sheen replaced with heartbreak violins and a sinister hollow drumbeat, gradually working up into a shearing & shifting mass of ramshackle anti-pop. Special stuff indeed.

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[MP3] Catherine A.D. - Paris (En Seine Mix) - (Alt Link)
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