“Daniel” by Bat For Lashes

Currently one of my favorite songs (along with Mono’s “Ashes In the Snow” and Junior Boys’ “Sneak a Picture”). I like this version more than the album version, and it’s all due to the chiming, Seventeen Seconds-esque guitar which comes to the forefront in a live setting — I’m just a sucker for that hollow, spectral post-punk guitar tone.

And no, it doesn’t hurt that the song is, in part, an homage to Daniel LaRusso. Yes, that Daniel LaRusso.

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