After a decade of relative hibernation, Ben Jacobs is finally releasing new Max Tundra music, and following PC Music collab “Lights 2023,” has just shared this cover of Kate Bush‘s “This Woman’s Work.” He is fairly respectful to the spare original, first heard on the soundtrack to John Hughes’ She’s Having a Baby, but he does take it fully into wild Max Tundra territory by the end.
“Kate Bush is one of the few artists to have made the substance of the universe appear to change before my eyes,” Jacobs says. “Her purity of artistic ambition has burst the universe wide open for me on several occasions. ‘This Woman’s Work’ is one of her most special pieces – I decided I would like to cover this song, as something new to perform at the end of my recent live show promoting my Domino reissues, as I felt it could showcase another side of my sound after the maximalist onslaught of my discography to date. I hope I did it justice.”
The video for “This Woman’s Work” was directed by James Hankins (Kero Kero Bonito, Richard Dawson) and imagines Max as the literal last pop star on earth. It’s a terrific video and you can watch that below.
