Brooklyn indie band Small Black‘s new EP, Real People, kicks off with two tracks featuring Frankie Rose (Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls). The second, “Lines Of Latitude,” is a swooning, slow-dance track straight out of an ’80s time capsule that serves as the set’s first single.

But it’s the EP’s closer, a cover of The Blue Nile’s “Downtown Lights,” that demands the first push of the play button. Having first fallen for the Glaswegian’s gorgeous song via Annie Lennox’s 1995 Medusa cover — a sumptuous take that’s still one of my favorite cover songs of all time — Small Black’s new interpretation is also captivatingly epic (and daresay, danceable).

Twenty-five years after The Blue Nile’s original release of “Downtown Lights” (on 1989’s Hats), it would seem no one can do wrong by Paul Buchanan’s song.

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Purchase Small Black – “Downtown Lights” (The Blue Nile cover) via iTunes, Amazon MP3.