Angie Hart’s beautifully spare and spectral version of The Cure’s Pictures of You carries a heady emotional power. The song has been stripped back to piano, strings, the barest of programming flourishes and Angie’s considered, affecting vocal.
Pictures of You is Angie’s first release since her critically acclaimed debut solo album Grounded Bird. That lovely, intimate record may have been Angie’s first solo album but it certainly wasn’t her first foray into the public consciousness. As vocalist with Frente, Splended, Holidays On Ice and now as solo performer, Angie’s distinctly gorgeous voice has often been imitated but never been bettered.
When the Transport Accident Commission needed a singular, evocative voice to soundtrack their emotionally weighted campaign highlighting the hidden victims of speeding, Angie Hart was the A three minute ad featuring Angie’s version of Pictures of You screened for three weeks early this year and had an unprecedented impact. The Pictures of You TAC campaign emphasises the deep emotional scars that speeding leaves on our community. Ten ordinary Victorian families volunteered to share their hearts and stories for one reason; they didn’t want anyone to endure the pain their families have experienced.
“I am very privileged to have been chosen to sing the song for one very moving, very important campaign,” Angie reflects, “When they showed me the footage and it had me crying in the boardroom meeting, I realised that I was going to be a part of something quite incredible.”
Profits from sales of the single will go to The Compassionate Friends Victoria, part of a world-wide organisation offering friendship and understanding to families following the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister.
Proudly Supported by the Transport Accident Commission.
Pictures of You is available exclusively now through Australian i-Tunes.
