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She Had No Idea How Eerie This Song Would Sound During COVID-19: Holy Boy – Riders on the Storm

By on Monday, March 30, 2020

At the beginning of March when Holy Boy set her next release the world looked so different. She was gearing up for her showcases at SXSW, and within days it had been cancelled… Within another week, the world began to crumble..
Now as her track is live, it sounds deeply eerie in the current world climate. 
Holy Boy aka Helene Alexandra Jaeger’s cover of “Riders On The Storm” by The Doors was meant both a tribute to the inspiration the band has been to her, and points the way to the mood on her forthcoming album…
 
Now, as the track is out in the middle of the world’s COVID-19 crisis, Helene says: 
 
“In these troubled times, I hope that my version of this classic song can be cathartic, to take you on a gentle cosmic flow into a calm and darkly beautiful place.”
With her take on “Riders On The Storm”, Holy Boy reincarnates the Doors’ original into a detached, funereal version of its classic self,
Jæger’s voice doubled and pitched down creates an eerie phantom duet with her shadow self, culminating with the line “I’m a changeling, see me change”.
Holy Boy’s eponymous debut EP was recorded at Ben Hillier’s (Depeche Mode, The Horrors, Blur++) Pool Studios in London and released to critical acclaim in 2017, with the single “The Blood Moon” being premiered on BBC Radio 1 and Holy Boy showcasing at festivals including CMJ, NXNE, and SXSW.

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