My surprise that EMF seem to have snuck back in and have been releasing new songs for the past year or so was surpassed by discovering that they've also recorded a version of the Bauhaus classic Bela Lugosi's Dead.
What at first appears to be a fairly faithful rendition does eventually go sonically into more familiar Meff territory, but I guess the question was always going to be when rather than if.
On a couple of listens so far, I quite like it.
EMF are not the only ones to try their hands at Bela Lugosi's Dead, of course. Nouvelle Vague covered most of the indie disco bases in the mid-2000s, so it was perhaps inevitable that they'd have a go, slowing things down even further than you'd think possible.
No official video, but here's a version cut to footage of 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
I was going to say that CHVRCHES delivered their take on the song "more recently" until I realised that it was over ten years ago! Lauren and co. deliver a punchy take, so in keeping with their singular sound that you'd think they had written the song.
Again, a fan-made video using excerpts from - what else? - the 1931 classic film adaptation of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi himself.
It would be a catastrophic failure on my part not to go back to the source, wouldn't it?
Not quite the original version, I've instead exhumed a 1982 performance by Bauhaus, a mere six minutes to close out music TV show Riverside. Judging by his opening position, Peter Murphy had clearly stocked up on Maxell cassettes by this point.
The first and the best, though respect to all of the above for their sterling efforts.
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