Music News - Princess Chelsea shares new video for mesmerizing Disasteradio cover, 'Aftertouch'
16 November 2016 - 0 Comments
Follow a NOISEY premiere, Princess Chelsea has
shared a karaoke-style
music video for her striking cover of Disasteradio's
unreleased track, Aftertouch. The
song became the title track for her recently-released covers album, out now on Lil Chief Records.
It's is a banger of a track, with Chelsea playing post-modern Madonna to
Disasteradio’s nostalgic disco-synths. Watch
the video below, created by Simon Ward and Luke Rowell (Disasteradio), who had this to say about Princess Chelsea's take on his song:
"After mentioning she liked my tune Aftertouch after seeing it live, I got stuck on this idea that it would be a great fit for
Chelsea's voice. Also I have always loved the she mixes fiction with pop music
and the song is very much along those lines. I remember getting chills hearing
it in her voice for the first time, right from my gmail. Her treatment gives
the song a really great melodrama and timeless pop energy, I love it so
much!"
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Aftertouch is a collection of
covers by Princess Chelsea, recorded between 2010-2016, featuring songs by
local artists including Lawrence Arabia, Disasteradio,
Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda
Williams, Nirvana,
and of course Elvis
Presley. Chelsea uses covers as a way to experiment with
production and arrangement ideas in between albums, and Aftertouch is a
curious invitation to hear the development of a musical palette over five
years.
Die-hard fans may notice that early covers (And I Love Her, 2010)
present building blocks for ideas used in later recordings of original material
(Goodnight Little
Robot Child fromLil’ Golden Book, 2011).
Jonathan Bree (Lil'
Chief's Chief/The Brunettes) has lent a hand on
production for nearly all of these tracks - Nikkel and Bree seem to have
fine-tuned their working chemistry after two albums together. Earlier self
produced tracks like And I Love Her and Come
As You Are may not have the sonic fine-tuning of Bree’s magic
wand but still posses a naive charm.
Chelsea says:
“The ‘Princess Chelsea’ sound is something I’ve spent years developing and is heavily based on arrangement. I’ve spent hundreds of hours fine tuning an instrumental palette and one of the ways I do that is by recording covers of my favourite songs. The common theme amongst all these songs is quite simply good songwriting - I always cover songs that move me emotionally and hope that the songwriting might rub off on me a little bit. Those nearer to my age group will hopefully be as moved by an Interpol cover as most people should be by the most beautiful song in the world Can’t Help Falling In Love With You."
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