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Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back Features Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Bon Iver Covers

Oct 29, 2009, 10:06am stereogum
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Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back . It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Neil Young. It's being called a "song swap," which implies some artists will also cover Gabriel, or each other, though we don't have all the details just yet. We do have a video of Gabriel and a string section doing Paul Simon's "Boy In The Bubble," before which he explains the project and introduces collaborator John Metcalfe, who's said [...]
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