Baroque pop artist Apollo covers Stacie Orrico's "(There's Gotta Be) More To Life"

The tune will feature alongside nine other covers on upcoming mixtape My Beautiful Dark Mixtape Fantasy - the second covers tape, following last year's My Mixtape Brings All The Boys To The Yard.

The original's a fist-pumping '00s gem full of passion and power ballad hooks. Apollo's kept the same sense of grandiosity but stripped away the layers - it's a partly a cappella offering full of solemnity and reverent refrains. Electro percussion and faint organs buzz underneath a web of voices - this is an opalescent reinvention of one of the 21st century's forgotten hits.

Explaining the choice of cover, Apollo says: "I chose this song cuz it’s always been one of my favourites. It’s not intended to be ironic: I genuinely adore this track and think it’s a perfect pop masterpiece. I wasn’t attempting to improve on it (because that’s impossible) but I just wanted to apply an even angstier, pseudo-choral, queer pop take. I usually try not to cover my favourite songs cuz I’m slightly afraid that I’ll ruin them or something, but I made an exception cuz I couldn’t stop thinking about covering it so it seemed like some sort of sign."

Keep an eye on Apollo's SoundCloud for more of the tape. Apollo's Atlantis, Ascending EP is out now, with a new short-player in the works for the "end of the year".

Hear "(There's Gotta Be) More To Life" cover below. The original is after.