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Bat For Lashes covers The Cure on new tribute

Charity comp also features Dandy Warhols

Bat For Lashes and are among the bands covering The Cure on a forthcoming tribute album.

'Perfect As Cats: A Tribute To The Cure' is due out worldwide on October 28 and also features Cure covers by Army Navy, Hecuba, Voyager One and Kaki King.

The album features 32 tracks and will be released as a limited-edition double CD that includes extensive liner notes, as well is in digital formats.

Sales of the album will benefit Invisible Children, a charity that helps the impoverished children of Northern Uganda.

The album tracklisting is:

Disc 1

Xu Xu Fang 'Fascination Street'
Bat For Lashes 'A Forest'
Hecuba 'Killing An Arab'
Astrid Quay (of Winter Flowers) 'The Caterpillar'
Indian Jewelry 'The Walk'
Rainbow Arabia 'Six Different Ways'
We Are The World 'Why Can't I Be You?'
blackblack 'In Between Days'
Rio en Medio 'Pictures of You'
Gangi 'Fire In Cairo'
Joker's Daughter 'Kyoto Song'
Aquaserge with Laure Briard '10.15 Saturday Night' (in French)
The Muslims 'Grinding Halt'
Voyager One 'M'
Ex-Reverie 'The Hanging Garden'
Caroline Weeks (of Bat For Lashes) 'The Drowning Man'
Devastations 'All Cats Are Gray'


Disc 2

The Dandy Warhols 'Primary'
Veil Veil Vanish 'The Upstairs Room'
Wolkfin (ex-Junior Senior) 'Charlotte Sometimes'
Army Navy 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'
Ich Bin Aiko 'A Strange Day'
Lemon Sun 'The Exploding Boy'
Corridor 'The Kiss'
Katrine Ottosen (CALLmeKAT) 'The Love Cats'
Silver Summit 'A Night Like This'
Mariee Sioux 'Love Song'
Kaki King 'Close To Me'
Buddy 'Sugar Girl'
Les Bicyclettes Blanches 'Hot Hot Hot!'
Tara Busch 'Let's Go To Bed'
Jesu 'The Funeral Party'
Sarabeth Tucek 'Three Imaginary Boys'
Lewis & Clarke 'Disintegration'


--By our Los Angeles staff.
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ed2005 

Aug 6, 2008

Look forward to hearing this, the Cure are my favourite band ever, and there are so many artists who are indebted to them. So many artists have claimed them as an influence, from Tricky to Marilyn Manson, and I feel that certain sections of the media have sought to write them out of the history books.Hint: It would be nice if when the new album came out in September, NME did a proper interview with them.

the_royal_wee 

Aug 6, 2008

plastic little sampling of the cure in 'get closer' is amazing

Menelmacar 

Oct 30, 2008

Tori Amos does a brilliant version of Love Song

Jujufang 

Nov 8, 2008

Track 2 on disc 2, Veil Veil Vanish's cover of 'The Upstairs Room' is the best

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