Various Artists - Cool Tributes: Pop Standards Revisited

Author

Lauren McWhirter

Published

Monday 10th December

Label: Phantom Sound & Vision

Once you have a listen to this double album you’ll be finding any excuse to have a groove around your place of work/bedroom/local supermarket.

Showcasing an eclectic mix of rockin’ oldies such as the cover of Acca Dacca hit I’m a Rocker, to the most fantastic remix of the Radiohead classic Everything In It’s Right Place by Osunlade featuring Erro, this is most definitely the album to get you in the festive mood with a little swing and jazz.

Even scary early 90s songs by M-People have been made bearable, if not enjoyable to listen to. If you’ve ever cringed while listening to your parents play the Bee Gees or Burt Bacharach, fear no more – you can now keep them, and yourselves happy over Christmas by listening to brilliant, souled up versions of stuff that would previously make you want to pass out under the table with roast turkey stuffed in your ears, and just when you couldn’t think things could get much better, out spill a few very funky cover tunes of The Strokes, Nirvana and Joy Division.

This certainly is a cool tribute and I’m icing up and being shaken like a margarita just thinking about it. Push it in, crank up the volume and get your dancing shoes on.