This is a cover of Pavement's 'Here', my favourite track on 'Slanted...', by the Nottingham band Tindersticks. I got into them through the National, when many people started making comparisons between Matt Berninger and Stuart A. Staples - both have deep, tuneful baritones, and although I think the comparison is only really valid for a very narrow period of the National's career, I can see how it started. Tindersticks' first two, eponymous, albums really are excellent (and indeed excellent value for money, each running to around 20 tracks). This is a BBC session from the period, released on various rarities and best-of compilations since. A lot smoother than the original (which was one of the smoother Pavement songs in the first place), I think it's a really good, fairly faithful cover, which manages to uphold the spirit of both the original and the covering bands.
Tindersticks – Here
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