This week's new singles reviews

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize Feat Jarvis CockerAvalanche (Terminal Velocity) (Phantasy)This candidate for collaboration of the year isn't a cover of Leonard Cohen's original Avalanche per se, more a thoughtful appropriation (approved by Len himself) that does decadence backwards. Erol Alkan and Boys Noize provide the dirty electro tweaks that contrast beautifully with Cocker's spoken recitation of Cohen's lyrics, as if at 2:17am you'd stumbled into a grotty nightclub beloved of German drug monkeys on...

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