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Approved: Wild Beasts’ Lady Gaga remix
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 24 August 2011
Lady Gaga has been getting a lot of unexpected people to remix tracks from her second album, ‘Born This Way’. It’s possibly an attempt to salvage something good from the largely horrible-sounding originals. Well, OK, maybe she (or whoever is commissioning these remixes) doesn’t quite see it that way. But it’s working, so well done anyway.
Analogue electro quartet Mirrors turned in their own take on ‘Judas’ back in May, and now another British indie outfit has created a remix of one of the Gaga’s tracks. In its original form, the slightly generic, umlaut-mocking country ballad ‘Yoü And I’ is one of the more palatable songs on the album, but Wild Beasts nonetheless take it and strip almost everything out of it but for a few lines of vocals. They then twist it into a shimmering ambient track and slip in a new piano hook.
As you’d expect from Wild Beasts, the results are beautifully composed, and suggest that they should offer themselves up as remixers more often.