Here's an eerily beautiful Radiohead cover from Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks to make your day

The words "green plastic watering can" have never sounded so good.
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Here's an eerily beautiful Radiohead cover from Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks to make your day
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It's always a risk when an artist covers a much-beloved classic song. But Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks performed a cover of Radiohead's iconic song "Fake Plastic Trees" and it most certainly did not disappoint.

For BBC Radio 1's Piano Sessions, Bridgers and Parks combined their ethereal vocals to perform a stunning piano version of the 1995 song from Radiohead's second studio album The Bends.

Just to make the whole thing even more melancholic, Bridgers donned a skeleton outfit and the pair performed the song inside a church. As you do.

This isn't Arlo Parks' first time covering a Radiohead song. The UK artist has also performed a version of "Creep," which is also well worth a listen.

The words "green plastic watering can" have never sounded so eerily beautiful.

Topics BBC Music

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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