Scratch My Back
This goes into my must-have category. I’m pretty sure that even if Peter Gabriel were covering the worst music in the world, it would become cool somehow.
On paper, it’s a fool’s errand: Peter Gabriel, a 60-year-old icon with one of the most distinctively dusky voices in rock, gets down with the young folk by covering the songs of Arcade Fire, Radiohead and Bon Iver, alongside tributes to peers such as Neil Young, Paul Simon, David Bowie, Randy Newman and others. Scratch My Back ought to be the ultimate in inessential vanity projects — an album-length love letter to a star’s impeccably curated record collection — but it flat-out isn’t. Instead, it actually does what it’s supposed to do; namely, do right by both the singer and his source material.
- Scott
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