When we posted the video for Fever Ray's "Seven," I included a stream of her (and Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid's) take on Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before." As mentioned then, it shows up on a two-song tour 7" along with a cover of Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindness." (Maybe you picked a copy up when she stopped by Webster Hall?) As far as the lineage, "Stranger"'s from Cave & The Bad Seed's 1986 fourth album Your Funeral... My Trial. Cave's then girlfriend/muse/collaborator/etc Anita Lane wrote the lyrics. Bad Seed/Einstürzende Neubautener Blixa Bargeld wrote the music and played guitar on the original. Dark period, dark stuff. This is what Karin Dreijer does with it.
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It looks like there are still copies of the 7" at www.feverray.com. Unless they just haven't updated the site. It's already sold out at Rough Trade. Here's Cave & The Bad Seeds tearing into the original:
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