Material: Bombay Bicycle Club record, uh, reggae

Well, okay, it’s not officially reggae. It’s been put down as “rub a dub”. Their guitarist Jamie MacColl seems to be pretty adamant that they avoid tarnishing the genre’s reputation; in an interview with NME, he said this:

I don’t know why we didn’t just put reggae – but if I saw “Bombay Bicycle Club reggae version” I’d probably run for the hills. The original plan was to get a proper reggae band to do it, like an old school one, because we thought us doing it – four middle-class white guys from north London – probably wouldn’t turn out very well.

Reggae or not, the track is a blinder. It builds very nicely on the original version as heard on the album A Different Kind of Fix, although has a much more rustic, demo-like feel.

The song will be released on their Leave It EP which also features acoustic versions of the title track and of successful single “Shuffle”, as well as a remix version of “Leave It”. Tasty.

Listen: “Lights Out, Words Gone” (Rub A Dub version)