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Hanni El Khatib has covered D'Angelo's sublime "Devil's Pie" for Record Store Day. Listen below.
Covering a track as masterful as "Devil's Pie" is never going to be easy, but San Franciscan rocker Khatib does enough to make the track his own. The swaggering, cocksure bass line from D'Angelo's original is altered slightly here, but it's still (more or less) present on Khatib's version. Khatib replaces D'Angelo's falsetto with his own soulful, reverb-heavy vocals and places a sparse, high-pitched guitar line and string section to boot.
Listen to Hanni El Khatib's cover of D'Angelo's "Devil's Pie" below
500 copies of the track will be released on Record Store Day (18 April) as a picture disc seven inch. Hanni El Khatib is currently touring in the US. He will play the following dates:
Saturday March 28 - Philadelphia Boot & Saddle w/ Savants
Sunday March 29 - Washington DC Rock & Roll Hotel w/ Savants
Monday March 30 - New York Bowery Ballroom w/ Black Pistol Fire & Savants
Friday April 3 - Montreal Bar Le Ritz w/ Black Pistol Fire
Saturday April 4 - Toronto Lee's Palace w/ Black Pistol Fire
Monday April 6 - Chicago Subterranean w/ Black Pistol Fire
