Premiere: Colouring – ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’

Motown classic given a rather more introverted treatment...

Colouring are aptly named – there's a painterly quality to the way they approach sound, to the way each song is sketched out.

The English four-piece are essentially a dream pop project, but their hazy, gauze-like sound is far more complex than that term might suggest.

Clash is able to unveil a new cover from the group, tackling a Motown classic and one of pop music's core texts.

'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' is given a funereal treatment, slowed down, pared back, and shot in monochrome.

The paranoia of the original is heightened, with Colouring seeming to suggest the moment of heartbreak in rather more bleak terms than Marvin Gaye.

Tune in below.

Photo Credit: Grace O'Neill

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