Check out the highlights of yesterday’s mellow Stripped Down playlist.
Stripped Down provides the perfect mood for the rainy season. With its luscious acoustic tracks and chilled vibe, every Sunday night becomes an experience to enjoy.
Sam Smith is the modern crooner. With his gorgeous soulful vocals and a unique arrangement that features an bass ukulele!, Smith and the session musicians from BBC’s Live Lounge created an intimate rendition of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 hit Fast Car. Smith’s version is slower and sparser with almost all the focus on his signature delicate crooning. After all, the man knows his strengths.
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THE NHBD, or The Neighbourhood, a Californian rock band that spells and sings like they’re English, blew up in the music scene in late 2011 with their indie pop song Sweater Weather. A perfect song for our own sweater weather in Cebu, The NHBD track was given a stripped down version by vocalist Jesse Rutherford and guitarist Zach Abels. That version was heard on last night Stripped Down.
In 1995, Annie Lennox recorded her rendition of Bob Marley’s 1977 reggae song Waiting in Vain, proving anyone can do a cover of a classic song and still do it justice. Lennox’ ethereal and whimsically melancholic version was used in the 2001 romantic comedy movie Serendipity.
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