Ellie Goulding Covers The Knife/Jose Gonzalez
Posted: March 23rd, 2011 | Author: Nathan | Filed under: Articles About Music, Cover of the Week | Tags: ellie goulding, José González, the knife | 1 Comment »
British indie darling, Ellie Goulding recently recorded another cover at BBC Radio 1. Previously she gave us her unique interpretation of Rihanna’s “Only Girl”. This time she is covering the the uber catchy dance-pop single, “Heartbeats”, from The Knife’s 2003 effort, Deep Cuts. Although to be more accurate it sounds like she is actually covering José González’s intimate cover that he recorded and released on his 2005 album, Veneer.
While it shares more in common with the Gonzalez version, being acoustic in nature, she still makes it her own, by speeding it up a little and giving it some cheerier vocals that contrast with Gonzalez’ very somber take on the track. Take a listen to these beautiful tracks below. And as always, don’t judge a song by it’s cover.
” No Way ! ! ! “- My out loud exuberance to the fact that Ellie covered Heartbeats.