release date: Apr. 7, 2023
format: digital (4 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,63]
producer: Anna-Lynne Williams [recorded by]
label: self-released - nationality: USA
Tracklist: 1. "All I Need" - 2. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" - 3. "How to Disappear Completely" - 4. "No Surprises"
Four previously released covers have here been compiled for digital download at Kestner's bandcamp profile. Tracks #1 and #2 are both included on Covers 2 (2020), track #3 was previously included on Covers (2015), and track #4 has previously been available on her bandcamp site. Covers are just a big part of Kestner's music, as most of her releases have included covers, and she has released several singles, eps, and albums exclusively containing cover songs, so covering Radiohead is not such a special thing.
Her speciality, when speaking of covers, is her ability to make her very own and highly original ambient folk-versions of not-folk material, and in that regard it's always fascinating how she chose to arrange these songs.
The four Radiohead songs are all major classics by this great innovative British band and in Kestner's hands they shine anew. I do prefer the originals, but Kestner's versions are still intruiging renditions.
