Florence And The Machine Covers Mystery Jets

Florence Welch aka Florence And The Machine hails out of the UK and she's got all the Brit buzz. The BBC critics poll placed her at #3 on that list of most likely breakouts for 2009, the NME threw her on a cover, MGMT took her on their European tour, etc. From what I've heard, which isn't much beyond her singles "Kiss With A Fist" and "Dog Days Are Over," she seems to be somewhere between Kate Nash and Regina Spektor in terms of melodic/lyrical phrasing and Jemina Pearl in terms of occasionally distorted guitars and wanting to kick you in the teeth, contemporarily speaking. Just with a little more soul, and a little more Kate Bush. You can try both of those songs out after the jump if you're behind on your Brit hype, but not before grabbing Flo's cover of my favorite Mystery Jets song, "Flakes." Hers is reverent to a fault, but that's OK because the original lacks any.

Florence And The Machine - "Flakes" (MP3)

Compare:

Mystery Jets - "Flakes" (MP3)

Here's Florence in her own words:

Florence And The Machine - "Kiss With A Fist" (MP3)

"Kiss" is alright. If that doesn't grab you, or if you want to understand what grabbed MGMT, try the video for "Dog Days Are Over" and understand why sometimes people say thing like "Florence The Machine is an eccentric singer-songwriter":

Florence's singles are available via IAMSOUND.

Posted at 3:53 PM by amrit in MP3, Video
Tags: Florence And The Machine | Mystery Jets

8 Comments

I don't even think this qualifies as a "cover" - it's just her singing over an instrumental of the original song. Karaoke, more like.

Posted by: C. Science at 01/29/09 4:04 PM  | Reply
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Man the UK hype machine churning out more crap yet again

Posted by: Parkson at 01/29/09 4:16 PM  | Reply
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i love florence. that flakes cover is old. and yes, it is a cover.

Posted by: johnnytantan at 01/29/09 4:36 PM  | Reply
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she does a really great cover of postcards from italy where she yodels. true story.

Posted by: aaron at 01/29/09 5:35 PM  | Reply
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Not bad.

Posted by: Mr_Blue_Angel_Dood at 01/29/09 8:15 PM  | Reply
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with the voice she has, she cant do bad!

Posted by: nadsat at 01/30/09 1:53 AM  | Reply
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I enjoyed that video! she reminds me of Feist and Neko Case. Shes a lot better than a lot of shit thats been released from the UK this year, here's looking at you Duffy!

Posted by: mmk at 01/30/09 9:25 AM  | Reply
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And here is more from the machine. An alternate video for Rabbit Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqY0H944tE&feature=channel_page

Posted by: Monkey at 06/18/09 9:16 PM  | Reply
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