Album Review: Triple J Radio’s Like A Version Is A MUST Album

I LOVE the compilation that is Triple J Radio’s Like A Version. When you gather some of the best artists of this generation to re-do and re-vamp some of the best songs ever, you get the Triple J Version. Let’s be frank. What artist has not said to another, “Damn, I wish I would have written your song?” Music is already possessive by nature, but the art of a “cover” is a manifestation of how we feel we own a song, or rather, it owns us.

I truly cannot pick a favorite cover, in part, because each artist spins and adds their own hearts to songs that are not originally theirs, but convert it to feeling and being their own original version. Tame Impala turns Kylie Minogue’s seductive “Confide In Me” into an electrically mystic, desperate plea for trust, while Broods strip back the dance-hall flavor of “One Dance” into a moodier recollection of love at a club. Asgeir takes Milky Chance’s “Stolen Dance” and rips it for its soul, while Mark Ronson “funkifies” Queens of Stone Age’s “I Sat By The Ocean”. These are just a few examples of the sonic twists you will receive from this record. Mumford & Sons’ “Unfinished Business” by White Lies, James Vincent McMorrow’s “West Coast” by Lana Del Rey, and Boy & Bear’s Back To Black” by Amy Winehouse transform these more electro-based tracks in acoustically driven, folk anthems for the love-lorn. Honestly, if there is one album you should get, to be released September 28, it is Triple J Radio’s Like A Version. You get all the best artists guaranteeing great re-mixes of the songs you already. For More Information Click Here.