Sensual wailing guitars and synths form the basis of Late TV‘s cover of the iconic “A Girl Like You”. Originally performed by Edwyn Collins, the rising house band from the UK has not only done justice to the track, but really made it their own.
The 2022 iteration by Late TV is pumped up with a jazzy and disco edge, super passionate and emotive delivery with exquisite vocal textures. It makes for somewhat of a brighter juxtaposition to the original song which is perhaps a little moodier, and much brighter than the more metal version released by Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker.
Guitarist and vocalist Luke J Novak has a wide and refined vocal range, and drummer Richard ‘Beu’ Bowman gives us pace and sensuality with his rolling beats.
References to dirty hands and starlets from a bygone era fit perfectly into the nocturnal aesthetic set-up by Late TV’s recent releases ‘Night Tennis’ and the more emotional self-destruction in the stomping glam-funk of ‘Fools Fools Fools’.
Late TV cite Daft Punk and Jamiroquai as influencers, and this totally comes through in the quality and dimensionality of their work.
“This is one of the first songs I remember liking as a kid,” explains vocalist Luke Novak. “I always wanted to sing it. Edwyn’s voice crooning those lyrics and the mood of the music is really lodged into my psyche. We initially learned it to play for a friend’s birthday party, and when we started recording last year it just seemed like it would slip comoftably into our repertoire.”
A Girl Like You is the third single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album, where the group explore the postmodern wastelands of pop as high-brow/low-brow mutant junk dwellers, collecting the shards of our fragmented culture and building something both irresistibly dangerous and dangerously irresistible.