Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez covered "Stand By Me"
Just as we had Equal Vision Records on our minds, Coheed & Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez re-activated his electronic solo project The Prize Fighter Inferno, whose debut album My Brother’s Blood Machine came out on EVR back in ’06. Claudio hadn’t released any TPFI material in eight years, but then he returned this month with the new song “More Than Love,” and today he just followed that with a cover of the Ben E. King classic “Stand By Me.” Claudio keeps the melodies of the original intact, but he otherwise turns it into a spacey synthpop take. You might think you never need to hear a cover of this song again, but this really is a true reinvention. Listen:
And here’s that new original:
