Watch Magdalena Bay’s sparkly cover of David Bowie’s ‘Ashes To Ashes’ for ‘Like A Version’

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Magdalena Bay have covered David Bowie‘s ‘Ashes To Ashes’ for triple j‘s Like A Version series – check out the full performance below.Last night, Australia’s triple j shared the latest edition of their famed Like A Version series, in which musicians perform covers of other artists’ work, albeit with their own stylings.

This time, Magdalena Bay have taken on the iconic David Bowie’s ‘Ashes To Ashes’ while in Australia for their tour of the continent earlier this month.For the most part, Magdalena Bay’s take on ‘Ashes To Ashes’ remains largely true to the original, only really altering the song’s vocal range to suit that of singer Mica Tenenbaum.Check out Magdalena Bay’s cover of David Bowie’s ‘Ashes To Ashes’ below.Discussing their cover with triple j, Magdalena Bay’s Tenenbaum said: “It’s kind of one of our favourite songs, I would say”.

Matthew Lewin chimed in to add: “Yeah, it’s up there for sure. It’s a great kind of weird, experimental pop song that we took a lot of inspiration from.”They also added that the song has never left their rotation, with Tenenbaum adding that she thinks she heard the song for the first time while watching its music video.

She added: “I drew a lot of influence from his ideas of being an artist and what it means to create art, I found very inspiring going into the creation of our latest album ‘Imaginal Disk’“.Explaining why they decided to stick to the original song for the most part, Mica shared: “When you love a song so much and you know what you love with it, and you also want to make it your own a little bit, it’s like how much did you really mess with it?”“I just wanted it to feel like me,” she said of altering the vocals to fit her range and style. “Because obviously I love Bowie’s.