Nick Cave responds to The Flaming Lips’ cover of ‘Girl In Amber’

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Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on The Flaming Lips’  recent cover of the Bad Seeds track ‘Girl In Amber’, which they recorded with 13-year-old fan Nell Smith.The Flaming Lips’ version of ‘Girl In Amber’ emerged last week as part of a whole Nick Cave covers album, that the band recorded with Smith.

Alerted to the cover by a fan, Cave took to his Q&A website The Red Hand Files to give the reworked version of the 2016 ‘Skeleton Tree‘ song from  his approval.“This version of ‘Girl in Amber’ is just lovely, I was going to say Nell Smith inhabits the song, but that’s wrong, rather she vacates the song, in a way that I could never do,” said Cave. “I always found it difficult to step away from this particular song and sing it with its necessary.