Irish band Driven Snow, husband and wife team Kieran and Emily, who are former members of Delorentos and Republic of Loose, have released a video for their current single, a cover of My Bloody Valentine's When You Sleep.
Taken from their début album, A Kind Of Dreaming, the duo took the feedback-laden original, which appeared on the MBV’s classic 1991 album, Loveless) and gave it a good mix-up and "de-fuzzing".
"When the themes of our album started to present themselves, this song seemed to fit perfectly," they say.
"Tommy, who collaborated on and produced the recording, didn’t even recognise the song as a cover, initially, so there weren’t any pre-conceived ideas to tie it down to the MBV version.
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"When it’s played live there’s often a ripple of recognition in the crowd when they catch that it is a 30 -year old My Bloody Valentine song!"
A Kind Of Dreaming was released last February and the band cite their influences as Neil Young, Beach House, Cat Power, Scandinavian TV shows and fireside beers.
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