Bedtime For Toys “Somebody’s Watching Me (Rockwell Cover)”
LA band Bedtime For Toys first caught Maestro’s attention earlier in the year with their surprisingly enticing “hip hop/ fuzz-rock & b” style, especially when it was applied to some cool remakes of Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September”.
Their fondness for twisted revamps of back-in-the-day R&B goodies continues in their latest creation: a hard-rockin’ stab at Rockwell’s 1984 guilty pleasure “Somebody’s Watching Me”.
Keeping in mind that any cover of the Jacksons-blessed paranoid epic must be handled with tongues planted firmly in cheek, BFT inject the record with plenty of goofy charm. From it’s kooky slathering of heavy metal guitar noise to the featured bits of icy synth-ery that used to be favored by all the popular ’80’s dance-pop tarts to singer Marchelle Bradanini’s diva-grrrl vocal vamping, their rendition of “Watching Me” is a delightful romp from start-to-finish, and it provides more-than-enough proof that catching them live would likely guarantee a fun time had by all.
Look out for more killer re-imaginations of throwback gems when they release their covers EP, BFT Iz Punk n’ B early next year.
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