Björk had a huge hit with this weirdly beautiful song about a relationship in 1995 (can you believe 15 years have passed?!). Outside of hearing it “remixed” by the Broadsky Quartet, who provided a quirky, modernist interpretation, I hadn’t run across many people brave enough to do a cover of the song. I had a bit of fun using my iPhone to read up on the tune this evening, noting that it had been covered several times. The interpretation that intrigued me the most was by an Indonesia band called Mocca, who manage to re-work the tune into a jazzy, mellow ditty that could play well on one of those snazzy “soft jazz” radio stations we have in the Greater Los Angeles area like The Wave. Not a bad effort at all.
REVIEW: Mocca – Hyper-Ballad
