It is only 2 January and, already, I think I might have seen my favourite Scary Pockets video of the year:

This is the kind of thing I really love from the band – a cover of a song I know well, done with aplomb and not leaving me wishing I was listening to the original instead. The band – a rotating collective of excellent musicians who manage to dish up a track each week – rarely put out something I don’t like but a lot of their covers are of songs I don’t know and, sometimes, even artists I haven’t heard of.

I think I must be a sucker for Maiya Sykes vocal stylings as I still clearly remember her appearance on Black Hole Sun from a couple of years ago. This Purple Haze is up with that, even though it is as different from the original as their Walk This Way (feat. Judith Hill), which was also a couple of years ago.

Any, recommended.