KUČKA SHARES NEW PJ HARVEY COVER ‘DOWN BY THE WATER’

Following the release of her long-awaited debut LP, Wrestling, Los Angeles-based, Perth-raised electronic pop auteur KUČKA today shares her cover of PJ Harvey’s ‘Down By the Water’. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE.

Like her cover of Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful’, KUČKA’s reinterpretation of the lead single from PJ Harvey’s critically acclaimed 1995 LP To Bring You My Love works so aptly because you can almost hear each artist in conversation with each other. Because KUČKAs rendition pulls off a sort of disappearing act and makes you improbably forget that what you’re listening to is a cover when all you can hear now is how, in so many ways, ‘Down By the Water’ is already a KUČKA song. With a shuffling, UKG-licked beat, layered vocals harmonising with one another, and trilling synths that sit somewhere between razor-thin menace and strobe-inducing, KUČKA’s palette of forward-thinking electronic pop and R&B shares a common sensibility with Harvey’s gripping and shrewdly hook-ridden art-rock. Proving her penchant for introspective pop songwriting that excavates the deepest, darkest recesses of the self, KUČKA’s rendition of ‘Down By the Water’ subsumes the original within a futuristic sheen that belies the morbid darkness of Harvey’s storytelling, continuing her insatiable momentum in 2021.