These people that I had tried to follow in their exact footsteps, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that.
I was thinking about how, in some ways, although everyone undergoes huge changes, their physical bodies, especially moving through touring, have been allowed to remain unchanged… and they can commit their body entirely to the stage. “I was thinking about Nick Cave, I was thinking about Leonard Cohen. “Search and Destroy” closes out Dance Fever (Deluxe), and the new edition also features acoustic versions of “Cassandra,” “Free,” “Morning Elvis,” and “My Love.” In a recent conversation with Zane Lowe, Welch spoke about drawing inspiration from Iggy Pop, as well as Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen, for the album opener “King.” She said,
#IGGY POP SEARCH AND DESTROY FULL#
Florence Welch’s voice is perfectly suited to everything over-the-top, delivering the lines, “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm/ I’m a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb,” in a conversational tone, and wailing out the words, “Somebody gotta save my soul!” Check it out after the jump. This version of “Search and Destroy” is a jaunty pop banger, with rollicking acoustic guitars and irresistible hand clap accents.
Florence + The Machine have shared a cover of The Stooges’ “Search and Destroy.” It appears on the deluxe edition of her new album Dance Fever, which is out today and which you can stream below.
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