A cover version is always going to divide people, but I’ve got a feeling that Lianne La Havas, the glorious London soul singer, met with approval from Thom Yorke here. Weird Fishes from the Radiohead album In Rainbows is transformed . Her powerful vibrato is beautiful, and you know straight off the bat that it’s her, so unique is her voice.
It’s a stripped back version from 2020. She wanted the seventies approach to recording, with the immediacy of the full band. I think it’s every bit as good as the original, and I’m already a fan. Find it on La Havas’ third eponymous album.
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