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Check out Pulp’s sultry cover of Johnny Cash’s ‘The Man Comes Around’
In a move that feels both audacious and strangely inevitable, Pulp has unveiled a sultry, slow-burning cover of Johnny Cash's apocalyptic 'The Man Comes Around,' a track that serves as the haunting centerpiece for the new ITV drama series 'The Hack,' which delves into the grubby underbelly of the 2011 phone hacking scandal. The choice is a masterstroke of thematic resonance; where Cash's original, recorded in the twilight of his life with producer Rick Rubin, was a gravel-voiced prophecy of divine judgment, all fire and brimstone set to a stark, acoustic frame, Pulp's interpretation, led by the ever-arch Jarvis Cocker, slinks into view with a different kind of menace.Cocker’s vocal delivery is less a proclamation from the mount and more a knowing whisper from a shadowy corner of a late-night bar, a world-weary observer to modern corruption. The arrangement swaps Cash’s biblical gravity for a bed of moody, reverb-drenched guitars and a languid, almost trip-hop rhythm section, evoking the kind of smoky, cinematic tension you might find in a David Lynch film or a lost track from a '90s Britpop noir soundtrack.It’s a reinvention that speaks volumes about artistic legacy and reinterpretation, much like Cash’s own American Recordings series recontextualized songs from genres far outside his own, proving a great song is a vessel, not a monument. The pairing with a drama about the moral decay and institutional rot of the British media landscape is pitch-perfect; the 'man' coming around in this context isn't just a biblical figure but the cold, hard truth finally arriving at the door of the powerful, a theme Cocker and Pulp have danced around for decades in their critiques of class and British society.This isn't a mere cover for a TV show; it's a commentary, a continuation of a conversation between two distinct but equally potent musical voices. One can almost imagine Cash, that great American iconoclast, nodding in approval from somewhere in the great beyond, appreciating the sheer gall and artistic integrity of a British art-pop band finding a new, sultry shade of darkness in his final, great warning shot.
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#The Man Comes Around
#The Hack
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