!["The Rainbow" (Talk Talk cover) [Stream]](http://assets1.pitchforkmedia.com/images/original/50180.shearwater.jpg "\"The Rainbow\" (Talk Talk cover) [Stream]")
New Music: Shearwater: "The Rainbow" (Talk Talk cover) [Stream]
"The Rainbow" is the godlike opening track from Spirit of Eden, Talk Talk's first masterpiece. Shearwater's live version of the song, which is the B-side to their "Rooks" single, gets just about everything right: the guitar tone that has both a warm coating of fuzz and an undercurrent of menace; the word-slurs that seem to come from a man at the end of his rope; the nice drifty middle section; even the harmonica. It's such a faithful cover, in fact, and they seem so utterly possessed by Talk Talk's spirit, it almost becomes difficult to hear Shearwater in it, but no matter-- it still rules.
[from the "Rooks" single; out now on Matador]