![]() Where The Viaduct Looms shares some of Oczy Mlody desolate sweetness, particularly on “The Ship Song”‘s blissful electronic haze. The Lips seize every opportunity to re-create Cave’s songs with adventurous production, transforming the hymn-like “Into My Arms” into a lush track worthy of a futuristic Phil Spector. “Nell’s guileless vocals are the bridge between his dark and deeply felt lyrics and the band’s ornate sounds. “Cave’s glowering menace acquires a new, lighter prettiness when his apocalyptic words are delivered in Nell’s high, youthful voice, drenched in echo and backed by the Lips’ familiar woozy electronic rock.” Evening Standard – 4 stars **** “This sweetly bizarre experiment pays off… Drenched in electronic buzz and psychedelic fuzz, these shimmery reworkings of Cave classics are pleasingly free of both solemn reverence and ironic kitsch.” Uncut The more gothic the song (Girl In Amber, Red Right Hand) the better the interpretation.” MOJO “US teen Nell Smith’s glassy sweetness is a great fit for the Lips on a Nick Cave covers LP. Nell and the Lips have previously shared videos for ‘Girl In Amber’, ‘The Ship Song’ and ‘No More Shall We Part’. The album was mastered by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios. This version of ‘Girl in Amber’ is just lovely. I’m a fan.Where the Viaduct Looms comprises nine Nick Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by The Flaming Lips. This inspiring and heartwarming story begin when Smith, originally from Leeds (UK), moved to Canada and first met Wayne Coyne at the age of 12 at The Flaming Lips’ headline show at the Sled Island Festival, Calgary, in 2018 with her family. Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling. Back in September, Smith who hails from Fernie in British Colombia, Canada and The Flaming Lips offered up the lead single Girl in Amber, which featured Smith flipping Cave’s. ![]() “I always found it difficult to step away from this particular song and sing it with its necessary remove, just got so twisted up in the words, I guess. Alerted to the cover by a fan, Nick Cave took to his website The Red Hand Files to write: “This version of Girl in Amber is just lovely, I was going to say Nell Smith inhabits the song, but that’s wrong, rather she vacates the song, in a way that I could never do,” said Cave. ![]() In a pleasing addition to the tale, the great man himself has given his seal of approval to the collaboration. It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.” I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. It was a really steep learning curve but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of the songs that I kept going. Nell comments: “I still can’t really believe it. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.” With Nell, we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. Speaking about the collaboration, Coyne comments: “It’s always great to meet excited, young creative people. The first track they recorded was a cover of Girl In Amber, the video of which Nell shared late last year. Coyne chose Cave because Nell didn’t know him and wouldn’t have preconceived notions as to how to sing the songs. When a planned trip to record with the band in Oklahoma had to be cancelled due to covid, Coyne suggested Nell record some Nick Cave songs and email them to Oklahoma to be backed by the band. Their creative relationship began to flourish when she started to write her own songs. A musical bond formed, with Coyne staying in contact with Nell and her father Jude as she learned to play guitar. Coyne noticed the kid in the parrot suit and sang a David Bowie cover directly to her at the show in Calgary, with Nell singing every word back. Nell had already attended several Lips shows and was a regular at the front of the stage, dressed in a parrot costume and screaming out the band’s songs. This inspiring and heartwarming story begin when Smith, originally from Leeds, moved to Canada and met Wayne Coyne at the age of 12 at The Flaming Lips’ show at the 2018 Sled Island Festival in Calgary. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Nell & The Flaming Lips’ Where the Viaduct Looms features nine Nick Cave covers with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by The Flaming Lips.
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