Watch The Anchoress pay homage to Depeche Mode on new cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence’

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The Anchoress, aka Catherine Anne Davies, has paid homage to Depeche Mode in her stripped-back new cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence’ – watch the video on NME first below.The cover is the latest from Davies’ new album, ‘Versions’, released today (October 6) – a project that has seen her re-imagine ten songs by artists including Manic Street Preachers, The Cure, Nirvana, Nico and Halsey.The latest cover is accompanied by a video directed by JJ Eringa and is a scene-by-scene recreation of the original video released by Depeche Mode in 1990 and created by Anton Corbijn.Speaking to NME about the new song and video, Davies said: “The concept behind the album was for me to flex my production and arrangement skills and revisit classic songs to challenge the listener to think about them in a new way, so when JJ suggested to me that we attempted a loving frame by frame recreation of the original video for Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ it seemed like the perfect fit for the intentions of the project.“The original video had a much more impressive travel budget than we had but with the ingenuity of director JJ Eringa…we were able to pretty much approximate every shot from Anton Corbijn’s original video.

Half was shot on a DIY green screen in my manager’s living room while the other half was shot guerilla style around the local countryside.

I might have gotten a few strange looks as I pranced around in a full velvet robe and crown all day!” Eringa added: “For years, I’ve loved the idea of doing a cover version of a music video.

The release of ‘Versions’ seemed like the perfect time to finally take a leaf out of Catherine’s book and make my own attempt at reworking a classic.