Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered

A collection of Bowie covers by contemporary electronic artists - there's a natural sympathy between the genre (widely defined - a lot of ground is covered here, so to speak, under that label) and the (often hallowed) originals that are reworked here. My favourites are, by and large, the more pop-edged melodic ones, Au Revoir Simone's "Oh! You Pretty Things" in particular, though a couple of the downbeat techno-inflected ones are nice too; Leo Minor's "Ashes to Ashes", coming off like a failed attempt to do what the Futureheads did with "Hounds of Love", however, only served to remind me how great the original it is.