#3071 Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back

Gabriel delivers every cover in this collection like an elegy for a dead world. Just mournful symphonics and words dropping from his mouth like rotted flesh. Even the big climax of My Body is a Cage is strangled into tension, and what a choking hash he makes of Street Spirit. I love that he commits to a sound and bends every song to it, and to that end the choices are inspired. But good god what a hopeless misery 3/5