Wild Beasts have shared a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye.” Says singer Hayden Thorpe:
2016 was a cruel year for goodbyes. We were in Canada the day Cohen died, though our version of ‘Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’ was recorded a few years earlier during writing sessions for Present Tense. The arrival of a Yamaha D50 synthesiser into the studio prompted some time down a worm hole from which we emerged with this. It seemed fitting to pull it from the archives, blow off the dust and let some light in.
Listen to their cover below. Wild Beasts’ latest album is this year’s Boy King. Thorpe also told us his Top 10 Songs of 2016.
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