Stream: Bat For Lashes - Plan The Escape (Son Lux Cover)

We've listened to the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 a lot during the past week. The Lorde curated collection of songs is truly a treasure chest of amazing talent, artistry and beats. One of the standouts (apart from this amazing Grace Jones original) is the Bat For Lashes cover of Son Lux's magical Plan The Escape. The added dreamy tone to the vocals really does things to us. The sharpness of the original gets slightly fuzzy at the sides and it's like looking through a stained glass. So many colours and shapes just burst at us. Love Natasha's voice and since this track is so short it makes our body ache for a new album real soon.     

Premiere: Grace Jones - Original Beast

Amazing Grace! For The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 OST Grace Jones has written and recorded a brand new track - Original Beast and it's a definite killer. She was asked personally by Lorde, the soundtrack curator, and it's clear to hear why. Apart from being absolutely fantastic this is a track that screams raw emotions with such an amazing guttural tone. At first it's really hard to pinpoint the sound and then it just shifts and hits you over the head like a ton of (amazing) bricks. Co-written by Grace's Hurricane album partner Ivor Guest they sound like such a dream team and his background as a composer of Oscar winning films really shines through. The classic reggae tones from the legendary Jones' Compass Point sessions in the early 80's is a wonderful spine for the song that just shatters into an electro feel that we're just crazy about. Listen below, it's real beast of a track! Thoughts?  

Premiere: Jessica Lange - Gods & Monsters (Lana Del Rey Cover)

Jessica Lange as Elsa Mars in American Horror Story: Freak Show continues to deliver the good big time! After her stellar performance of David Bowie's Life On Mars? - here's an amazing cover of Lana Del Rey's Gods & Monsters. Scheduled to be performed in this week's episode we cannot wait to see the visuals. Since this is for Amercian TV - naturally this is a clean version that omits all the fucks. Can we hope for the OST to have a dirty version too? Elsa deserves that for sure! We love her Marlene Dietrich influenced delivery and how an amazing storyteller she is. Listen below! Thoughts?

Premiere: The Chemical Brothers x Miguel x Lorde - This Is Not A Game

This Is Not a Game! As we know Lorde has been busy curating the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. So far with Yellow Flicker Beat her skills have been really impressive. Now she's enlisted The Chemical Brothers (for their first single since 2011) and Miguel for some serious battling. We love the hard industrial feel of the C.B beat paired with the raw yet soulful main vocals paired with the hypnotic mumbling. Damn cool!   

Stream: Jessica Lange - Life On Mars? (David Bowie Cover)

Jessica Lange made a lot of people extremely happy last week, including us. She as Elsa Mars sang David Bowie's iconic 1971 single Life On Mars? during the season premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show and it was so good! Styled in the vein of Marlene Dietrich's classic cabaret delivery and using the original music it was a glorious mishmash that totally worked and really added to the storyline. Elsa being disappointed by life and her own lack of fame go so well together with Bowie saying in 1997: I think she [the girl in the song] finds herself disappointed with reality... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it. It's a great rendition and the TV version even mimics the classic video. Since this week it has a stand alone release on iTunes as a single, very cool! It's on repeat here tonight!