On March 23, 2020, AA Williams uploaded a video to her YouTube channel. Shot in moody black and white at her London home, the musician sat at her piano and performed a skeletal cover of Radiohead’s Creep, silhouetted against the pale light coming through her curtains. It was the first in a series of covers the singer-songwriter uploaded to social media in the early stages of lockdown, putting her own glacial, neo-classical spin on songs requested by her fans, including The Cure’s Lovesong, Into My Arms by Nick Cave and Deftones’ Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away). Looking back, she says the project, which eventually became 2021’s album, Songs From Isolation, gave her “something to do that wasn’t staring at the news and being upset at everything that was happening.
Black Moon
Oct 21, 2022
5 minutes
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