free music friday: the bird & the bee

Our second Bird & The Bee post of the week, but we couldn’t resist featuring Inara and Greg’s surprisingly effective cover of Rihanna’s huge-selling 2007 single ‘Don’t Stop The Music’ from the ubiquitous Good Girl Gone Bad, an album that easily rivals Robyn’s self-titled and  Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black in the mercilessly plundering and repackaging stakes. A remix collection is due in 2 weeks. Oh joy.

But back to this cover. It’s great. Inara’s familiarly cutesy purr adopts a soft but insistent sensuality that really brings out the seductive intent of the lyrics as Greg transforms the pulsing dancefloor beat of the original into an atmospheric swirl of keyboards and magical sound effects, sometimes crisp, sometimes swaddled in fuzz. It’s quite the transformation and is easily the duo’s finest cover to date (’How Deep Is Your Love’ was just a little…obvious). ‘Don’t Stop The Music’ doesn’t feature on The Bird & The Bee’s new album Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future [review], but you should still buy it.

FREE MP3: The Bird & The Bee, ‘Don’t Stop The Music’

Written by: Alan Pedder

Tags: inara george, rihanna, the bird and the bee

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