Norah Jones covers Arcade Fire :: Music News :: Articles

The internet house is divided over Norah Jones covering the Arcade Fire. Is it “gentle, passionate and actually quite endearing?” Is it “sultry and seductive?” Or is it “even more boring” than the original? Running a German blog’s opinion through a free translation website leaves us with this opinion: “Entirely quiet remain: It is! Norah stands entirely behind the song, presses smuggles itself not before and the volumes another couple Countrysprenkel drunter discreet.” Couldn’t have said it better ourselves (though, if we had to try, we'd say that while the vocals have conviction, the instrumentation occasionally veers from nicely understated to somnambulant).

Other bands have covered the Arcade Fire lately, though Ms. Jones’ Sopot International Song Competition festival crowd sounds indifferent to the trend.

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