Typically, the goal when covering a song written and recorded by someone else is to get close enough in proximation to the structure and framework of the original, while adding your own distinct spin.

Cloud Nothings have performed an exceedingly avant-garde cover of Coldplay's 'Clocks', essentially exploding the song as the studio fills with smoke. "When we put Coldplay’s “Clocks” on this year’s ...

Coldplay’s 2002 piano-anthem “Clocks” is probably the best song that band has ever released, a swooping and soaring and elegiac arena-wail that uses house-music sonics without ever becoming house ...

Cloud Nothings performed their own take on the infamous Coldplay hit “Clocks” for the A.V. Club’s “Undercover” video series. Complete with farm animal noises, a hooded figure playing on a phone, a ...