SHY & DRS // Read All About It – The Covers EP

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If you’re going to do a cover, then you’re at least expected to do it justice and at least make it your own. Well, the boys from SHY & DRS have done just that with their latest offering Read All About It – The Covers EP.

They’ve taken 5 recent tracks (Taylor Swift’s I Knew You Were Trouble, The Script & Will.i.am’s Hall Of Fame, Fun’s We Are Young, Professor Green & Emeli Sande’s Read All About It and Ed Sheeran’s The A Team), got a couple of mates round, changed almost all the lyrics bar the choruses and hey presto, you have an EP.

It’s an interesting take on the tracks that even with the lyrical change still maintain a similarity to the original, but yet they are completely separate.Sure, it won’t be for everyone, but considering that their debut release is on the horizon, it a nice little thing to keep those waiting tided over until it comes out.

Rating: 4/5

SHY & DRS // The Love Is Gone Featuring Sandi Thom

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Well here is something that you don’t hear everyday (or maybe you will from now on). Scottish rap! SHY & DRS hail from the Granite City (aka Aberdeen) and have just released their debut single The Love Is Gone.

It features label companion/boss Sandi Thom and a riff from Marillion’s 1985 song Kayliegh. Because it’s not common to hear Scottish rap, it can feel a little odd listening to it. Though it is likely to be the chorus that gets stuck in your head.

An interesting song from the Aberdonians and hopefully not the last time that they are heard from. Their album, Before Too Long is due out early next year.

Rating: 4/5