![]() Mogwai’s string sections and moments of intrigue are clear throughout this piece, a nice, long-form song that gets a bit heavy-handed with its drums. Mogwai manage a fine sound, they embellish Pictures of You with their Scottish rock stylings, but that change does little for the message. ![]() Whatever the instrumentals hope to achieve can be belayed somewhat by consistency at the core. Insistence of that type keeps the powerful notions of Pictures of You secure. Scottish rock workings from Mogwai are the real quality here, closer to a cover where Smith insisted on staying on the track than anything else. Its dream-pop placement removes the reverb and tempo of the original track, a gorgeous inclusion on Disintegration now remix fodder for talented pairings. “Remembering you, how you used to be” is a spit of irony now that the track has been changed just enough to warrant a re-release. Smith’s vocal presence is intact and clear in this piece. This mix takes the bite out of the track, bulks up the running time and does nothing to improve on the original. A harmless Vibe Culture remix follows.īut one of The Cure’s finest tracks should not be labelled harmless. Pictures of You is proof that is not the case. Change the instrumentals, sure, they are apparently moments that produce a spitting-in-the-wind quality, ever changeable. ![]() Key to any good mix is understanding that the vocals are usually not the problem. Vibe Culture and Mogwai are swapped in, taking on The Cure’s classic track. Pictures of You marks not a reworking of the track but a change of personnel. U2 have the unreasonable argument of presuming talent does not fade. Swift has the reasonable argument of reclaiming her work. Re-releases, re-recordings, re-masterings. Not even Robert Smith of The Cure can resist the temptations that have struck U2, Taylor Swift and Marianne Faithfull.
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