Radiohead's Colin Greenwood has praised a classical reinterpretation of his band's songs, saying 'I love it, it's about time someone did some f***ing decent versions of this stuff'. Eliza Lumley, a former choral scholar at Cambridge University, has recorded 11 Radiohead songs for her current album 'She Talks In Maths: Interpretations of Radiohead', including the forthcoming single, a unique recording of 'Street Spirit'.
Lumley's interpretation of ‘She Talks In Maths...’ has already reached number one on the UK iTunes jazz chart and so far three of her songs have been synched with BBC programs. Since studying at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music in London, Lumley has spent much of her twenties on stage as an actress and a singer. She was in the original cast of Mamma Mia! in the West End, Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers on Broadway, embarked on a world tour of The Merchant of Venice, and most recently performed in David Guettel’s musical adaptation of The Light in the Piazza.
'She Talks In Maths: Interpretations of Radiohead' is a beautiful and surprising blend of the classical and the contemporary. Re-igniting Thom Yorke’s achingly reductive lyrics, the recordings jump effortlessly from the dreamy Cocteau Twins landscape of 'Let Down' to the angular challenge of the Ryuichi Sakamoto-inspired 'How To Disappear Completely'; to the sparse piano of 'Street Spirit', which echoes the minimalism of Michael Nyman
'Street Spirit' is released as a single on September 12.
