Listen: Coves - "Big Jet Plane (Angus and Julia Stone cover) [Premiere]

19 January 2015, 16:09 | Written by Laurence Day

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(Angus and Julia Stone) (Coves)

Indie-pop duo Coves have covered Angus and Julie Stone's "Big Jet Plane" from 2010 LP Down The Way as part of the Nettwerk 30th birthday compilation.

From Cover To Cover: 30 Years At Nettwerk, is a "celebration of Nettwerk’s 30th anniversary", and is released 26 January. It's compiled in reverse chronological order by release year, and sees the current Nettwerk roster tackle a few of Nettwerk's most popular songs over the past three decades.

Coves turn Angus and Julia Stone's "Big Jet Plane" from a laidback, summer-zephyr affair, peppered with Kings Of Leon-isms, and add a deranged, surftronica twist. It's no longer the wispy, lovelorn cut it once was; Coves don't necessarily make it evil, but they sure make it a darnsight more sleazy. Lascivious, syrupy guitars lure shimmering beats into dens of inequity - when Coves sing "I'm gonna hold you, I'm gonna kiss her in my arms/I'm gonna take you away from home..." it's less romantic elope, more 'point of no return'. Sublimely shadowy.

Listen to Coves' rendition of "Big Jet Plane" below. You can find the compilation's tracklist after.

Tracklist

1. Let Her Go (Cover by Scars on 45; Original by Passenger)
2. Big Jet Plane (Cover by Coves; Original by Angus & Julia)
3. You Me & The Bourgeoisie (Cover by Madi Diaz; Original by The Submarines)
4. World Spins Madly On (Cover by Joshua Hyslop; Original by The Weepies)
5. Wagon Wheel (Cover by Lily Kershaw; Original by Old Crow Medicine Show)
6. In Spite Of All The Damage (Cover by Dave Beckingham (Hey Ocean!); Original by The Be Good Tanyas)
7. Gold In Them Hill (Cover by Admiral Fallow; Original by Ron Sexsmith)
8. I Hear You Calling (Cover by Dave Vertesi (Hey Ocean!); Original by Gob)
9. Shiver (Cover by Run River North; Original by Coldplay)
10. Yellow (Cover by Caroline Pennell; Original by Coldplay)
11. Jane (Cover by Twin Bandit; Original by Barenaked Ladies)
12. Ice Cream (Cover by William Fitzsimmons; Original by Sarah McLachlan)
13. What Was Going Through My Head (Cover by Great Lake Swimmers; Original by The Grapes of Wrath)
14. Assimilate (Cover by Radical Face; Original by Skinny Puppy)