Among the treasures offered on Record Store Day 2012 was a boatload of cover songs. With budget in mind, I successfully tamped down temptation, passing on 7″ singles from The Civil Wars (“Billie Jean”/“Sour Times”) and Ra Ra Riot (“Valerie”). I did briefly have both in hand, however.

But I couldn’t resist buying School Of Seven Bells‘ cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Kiss Them For Me,” as I so love the original. In fact, after forgetting to look for the 7″ at the first store I visited on Saturday, I trekked over to another in hopes of snagging it and was successful.

Of course, as these Record Store Day “exclusives” sometimes go (and I really should have done my homework), today School Of Seven Bells released “Kiss Them For Me” digitally. Since I was really after the song and not the limited-edition vinyl, eBay, here I come.

School Of Seven Bells covered “Kiss Them For Me” in concert over the past few years, but those performances didn’t capture the industrial-synth magic of what Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza have conjured on record:

School Of Seven Bells’ “Kiss Them For Me” is backed by “When She Was Me,” a previously unreleased track from the duo.

Purchase School Of Seven Bells – “Kiss Them For Me” (Siouxsie and the Banshees cover) via iTunes, Amazon MP3.