San Francisco noise-rock act Railcars — the musical alter ego of Aria C. Jalali — this summer will release a cover of the classic first side of Kate Bush’s 1985 album Hounds of Love on limited-edition cassette and one-sided vinyl formats — and you can hear three of the genre-bending tracks below.
Railcars’ Hounds of Love — featuring “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” “Hounds of Love,’ “The Big Sky,” “Mother Stands for Comfort” and “Cloudbusting” — will be released June 21 on cassette in a run of 100 copies by Crash Symbols, and then on one-sided vinyl (with laser-etching on the flip side) in a 275-copy pressing on Aug. 8 by AMDISCS.
You can stream three of the mini-album’s five tracks — drastic aural makeovers of “Hounds of Love,” “The Big Sky” and “Cloudbusting” — after the jump.
at 3:38 am
Honestly? Cacophonous art school fuckery. As I kind of expected.
Placebo’s cover was too note-for-note. The Futureheads ftw. I would like to see a female artist nail Kate, but I’m skeptical because all the ones I’ve heard thus far sound like highly amateurish Kate imitations.
at 3:41 am
The synth hook on “The Big Sky” reminds me of “Take Me Home” by Phil Collins for some reason.