Norah Jones Remixes by Beck, Beastie Boys, Santigold

Norah Jones has been working for quite some time on cultivating a bit of an edge--a difficult undertaking for a woman with a honey-sweet voice who took the music industry by soft, cuddly storm in 2002 with one of the mellowest albums ever recorded.

The Norah of today is more complex. She plays the guitar. She's laid down vocals on a Q-tip track. Her soft, loopy hair has been jettisoned in favor of a shorter style. And most recently, she's enlisted the most unlikely producers to remix tracks from her latest album, The Fall: the Beastie Boys, Santigold, and Beck.

Pitchfork has the scoop:

First up: the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D, whose "NYC remix" of "That's What I Said" turns Jones' original into something resembling dubstep. It's pretty weird! You can hear it over on RCRD LBL. Also, Santigold and Snotty have turned the Jones track "Chasing Pirates" into downbeat electro; Stereogum has that one. And Artist Direct has another remix of "Chasing Pirates", this one from Droogs, a collective that includes Beck.

Check out the remixes and let us know what you think. Is this a brave new direction for Norah, or should she stick to the knitting?

--Courtney Powell

Comments

[jade leonard on December 06, 2009 at 06:25 PM]

awesome.