Sydney Indie Band Cover Duran Duran With Warpaint, Moby And More

Fledgling Sydneysiders Service Bells have found themselves alongside acts such as Warpaint, Moby, Little Dragon and Austra on a forthcoming Duran Duran covers album.

The band may have only come together last year, boasting alumni from esteemed local acts such as Sleepercar, Ernest Ellis and Cameras, but they're evidently already making a tangible impact, with their refined post-punk styling and wares to date such as debut single Metropolis enough reason to earn them a spot on the Amnesty benefit album Making Patterns Rhyme: A Tribute To Duran Duran.

Service Bells have done a sublime job of lending their talents to Double-D's 1981 crowd favourite Anyone Out There?, and it falls nice and early in the final track list (third song in!) for the record, which drops officially on July 15 via Manimal Vinyl/Modern Records.

Listen to the Sydney lads' rework of the song below:

Moby's take on the quintessential Rio kicks off the album, 19 tracks of Duran Duran du-overs, with consequent highlights including Canadian buzz act Beliefs re-envisioning Sound Of Thunder, French singer Soko giving Girls On Film a contemporary spin, Canadian electro luminaries Austra doing their thing with American Science, Swedish peers Little Dragon redoing Save A Prayer, and ascendant US rockers Warpaint giving classic track The Chauffer the most delicious of makeovers.

It all adds up to a sonically enjoyable, morally fulfilling endeavour that could give you a perfect excuse to start blasting old Duran Duran songs again under the veil of contemporary music.

Service Bells' reimagining of Anyone Out There? is available via iTunes. The band are currently working on their debut EP, due this year. See their Facebook page for more information.