A somewhat unlikely pairing, this version of Cole’s album track (from latest release ‘On Pain’) has been given a reworking by individuals working under the Mogwai banner (Barry, BM suspects).
There are slightly sinister tweaks of electronic percussion, a touch of auto-tune and vocoder-esque treatment and an overall atmosphere of ambient doom. This kind of suits the lyrical content of the track (“we tired of the mountains” “we danced to your discos”) – and of course the slightly theatrical “howls” of the chorus, not exactly ‘Werewolves of London’ but a more sophisticated Scottish lupine relative. Rather good actually, though not exactly seasonal…